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02
June 2006
Police
Search Pete Doherty
Plane
Spanish
police were called to
meet an aeroplane
carrying singer
Pete
Doherty
at Barcelona Airport
after EasyJet
said crew members found
a syringe on
board.
An
EasyJet spokeswoman said
crew found "a syringe
hidden in a bin, covered
in blood" in the plane's
toilet.
Spanish
Guardia Civil met Pete
Doherty and four friends
but found no suspicious
substances in the
lavatories.
They
were not arrested.
Doherty's band
Babyshambles played at
the Primavera Sound
Festival in the
city.
The
EasyJet spokeswoman said
the crew became
suspicious after Doherty
spent "an unusual amount
of time in the
toilet."
After
the discovery of the
syringe, Pete Doherty
was questioned by crew
and became "agitated and
aggressive", the
spokeswoman
said.
The
captain contacted
Spanish police, who met
the plane, which was
held on the ground for
about half an
hour.
Officers
only found a bottle of
heroin substitute
methadone, which Pete
Doherty is taking as
part of a drug treatment
programme.
Aviation
regulations mean
passengers must inform
an airline in advance if
they are carrying a
syringe for medical
reasons and Doherty
failed to do so, EasyJet
said.
"You
simply cannot take
syringes on an aircraft
without permission and
cause a potential hazard
to other passengers,"
the spokeswoman
said.
The
singer and his bandmates
were travelling on
flight EZY5135 from
London
Gatwick.
The
band have now been
banned from travelling
on EasyJet flights in
the future, the
spokeswoman
added.
At
the start of
Babyshambles'
performance at the
Primavera Sound
Festival, Pete Doherty
made a remark attacking
EasyJet.
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