Freedom flotilla activists sent bill for repatriation

(c) Freedom Flotilla

Nineteen Swiss activists who were detained in Israel last month are refusing to pay the bills for their own repatriation.

The group was arrested on October 2nd after joining the Freedom Flotilla, an effort to challenge Israel’s blockade of Gaza by delivering humanitarian supplies.

They spent up to six days in an Israeli prison before the Foreign Ministry brought them home.

But last week, each received an invoice ranging from 300 to more than a thousand francs.

The activists, backed by the Waves of Freedom Switzerland movement, call the charges “unjustified” and say they plan to appeal.

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