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Meditating, chanting actor suspected of ****** plot in onboard misunderstanding

LISBON, Portugal – A Portuguese actor says he was detained on suspicion of ********* after meditating and chanting Buddhist texts aboard a plane at Paris Orly airport.

Heitor Lourenco, 47, says he was reciting texts in Tibetan from his smartphone screen on the Lisbon-bound Transavia plane when ****** ordered everybody off the plane and led him away for questioning.

****** said to him that a neighbouring passenger thought he was reading aloud from the Qur’an and that the texts included the words “*****” and “bombs,” he told Portuguese media late Thursday.

The screen also had a clock that timed the length of the meditation. The passenger next to him thought the clock was a **** timer, Lourenco said.

******* spokeswoman Delphine Sacleux confirmed that another passenger had alerted the cabin crew of Lourenco’s “suspicious attitude in prayer.”

She said the crew followed standard procedures “given the current climate.”

****** then intervened, and determined that there was no ******* and all the passengers – including Lourenco – took a flight for Lisbon the next morning.

Lourenco, who has appeared in Portuguese soap operas and comedy sketch shows, said he was released after showing ****** some online clips of his acting and his Wikipedia page that says he is a Buddhist.

French authorities have put the country on its highest level of alert for ********* following ****** ******** ******* in and near Paris in January and the beheading of a French businessman last week in southeastern France.

France’s national ******, Orly airport ****** and the Paris airports authority did not return calls seeking comment.

 






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