Anonymous ID: c75f12 April 11, 2020, 10:18 a.m. No.8759278   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9344 >>9400 >>9479 >>9623 >>9762

This is the sight that greeted a group of billionaires after they attempted to land in the south of France and travel to their £50,000 a night luxury villa during the coronavirus lockdown.

 

The party of ten, three businessmen, three young women and various staff, were planning to fly by helicopter to a stunning £60m villa called Alang Alang where they would stay during the Covid-19 pandemic.

But customs and police officers barred them from stepping off the jet and ordered them to return to the UK following a three-hour standoff on the tarmac.

 

Video obtained by Mail Online - and filmed from inside the private jet - shows a dozen police waiting on the tarmac.

 

An official in a red high-vis jacket can be seen talking with a police officer moments after the private jet landed at Marseille-Provence airport.

A member of the travelling party told Mail Online they were not holidaymakers but three billionaires on their way to the cliffside villa to complete a business deal that would have created over 900 jobs.

He claimed the others in the party were bodyguards, a secretary and translators.

 

The businessman would not give any further details but said the trip had been booked days in advance with airport authorities and blamed the French authorities for being 'stupid'.

He said:' The problem was the stupid ignorance in the time of Covid 19.

'This was not a holiday in France but a big a project and investment in France. But now and for the future it has stopped.'

 

Police said the seven men who had flown from Farnborough airfield in Hampshire were in their 40s and 50s.

They described the women, aged in their 20s, as escorts and have not released their names.

The party had flown to France on a Embraer Legacy jet that cost £5,300 an hour to hire from the Lonodn PrivateFly charter company

Three helicopters that had been booked to fly the group to the property were not allowed to take off.

The pilots were fined on the spot by police for breaking the lockdown rules imposed by the French Government to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

 

As the group from the UK had not technically step foot on French soil they were not fined.

Police said one of super rich men hired a private jet at the airport and flew to Germany.

The others, led by a wealthy Croatian who lives in London and had paid for the entire trip flew, flew back to the UK.

Others on the flight were German, French, Romanian and Ukranian, according to police.

The party were headed to the most luxurious villa in the South of France called 'Alang, Alang.'

It was valued at over £50m a year ago when it was put up for sale and during peak season is rented out for £360,000 a month.

 

As well as eight bedrooms it features its own cinema room and multiple terraces with sweeping views of the Mediterranean.

There is also a private beach, spa, steam room and an indoor and outdoor pool.

A private nightclub is on the ground floor and the home includes a gym and fitness room.

The villa is often booked by the super-rich during the summer and a popular retreat for movie moguls during the Cannes film festival.

Sting once performed at the villa during an impromptu concert for music executives attending a wrap party at the Cannes Lion festival.

The house is owned by a British property developer who bought the original plot from disgraced arms dealer Adam Khashoggi.

He knocked down the original house and built the new villa which is available to rent.

 

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Anonymous ID: c75f12 April 11, 2020, 10:41 a.m. No.8759468   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Senator Rand Paul, the Republican senator from Kentucky, is pushing back against a plan by the Democratic governor of his home state to crack down on church gatherings during the coronavirus lockdown by reporting the license plates of those who attend.

 

Beshear warned on Friday that anyone attending a weekend gathering will be ordered to self-quarantine for two weeks as he announced a single-day high for coronavirus cases in Kentucky.

 

With Easter two days away, the governor took the new step against mass gatherings in an attempt to contain the virus’s spread.

 

A few Kentucky pastors signaled in recent days that they intend to go ahead with in-person services despite Beshear's constant warnings that churches should switch to virtual services or other ways for people to practice their faith and protect public health.

 

Under the new action, anyone participating in a gathering this weekend will have their license plates recorded to provide to local health departments, Beshear said.

 

Local health officials will go to each participant’s home with a 14-day self-quarantine order, he said.

 

‘This is the only way that we can ensure that your decision doesn’t kill somebody else,’ he said.

‘That your decision doesn’t spread the coronavirus in your county and in your community.’

The governor added: ‘I hear people say, “It’s my choice.”

 

‘Well, it’s not the person next to you’s choice.’

Beshear reported 242 new coronavirus cases statewide, raising the total to nearly 1,700. He announced 11 more virus-related deaths, bringing the state’s death toll to 90.

 

In the United States, there are a confirmed 505,015 cases of coronavirus as of Saturday. Of those, 18,771 people have died.

One cleric, Maryville Baptist Reverend Jack Roberts, took to Facebook and pledged to defy Beshear’s orders.

‘Do you think the virus just generated in this church or was it carried in from somewhere else,’ he wrote.

‘[I]t’s sad anyone gets infected even sadder it’s contagious but trying to blame churches or a particular church is unthinkable.

 

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