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'Home Alone' Vibes? Spanish Couple Ditches 10-Year-Old at Airport, Leaves for Vacation. Here's What Happened
CATALONIA, SPAIN, AUG 2 – The boy was denied boarding due to an expired passport and missing visa, and his parents left him at the terminal to avoid missing their flight, airport staff said.
- At Barcelona’s Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport on Wednesday, an unnamed couple reportedly left their 10-year-old son after passport and visa issues, choosing a relative to pick him up.
- Parents reportedly left their son to avoid losing their flight tickets and called a relative to pick him up as they boarded Wednesday.
- Authorities located the parents with their younger child and escorted them to the police station where their son had been waiting.
- Online users swiftly blasted the parents' decision, raising questions about parental responsibility and airport security measures, and one commenter wrote `"What an outrage!"`.
- The case draws comparisons to past airport abandonments like a 2018 Germany incident and a New Jersey conveyor mishap, highlighting documentation issues amid REAL ID requirements.
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Al Bawaba - Employees at an airport in Spain found a 10-year-old child alone. After a police officer was called to speak to the child, it later emerged that the child's parents had boarded the plane, leaving their child alone at the airport...
A story that seems implausible... but that's true.
'Home Alone' vibes? Spanish couple ditches 10-year-old at airport, leaves for vacation. Here's what happened
After reaching the airport, the couple realized that they didn’t have the required travel documents for their kid so they decided to leave him behind in the airport terminal and continue with their vacation plans
Left on the ground by his own parents because his document had expired. Other than that Mom I lost the plane. It is the surreal story happened at the end of July to a child...
A 10-year-old was abandoned by his parents at Barcelona Airport for a problem with travel documents.
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