Demonstrations over arrest of ski instructor
Holidaymakers have been demonstrating outside a French police station following the arrest of a British ski instructor.
Alex Casey was accused of providing lessons without a licence in the ski resort of Megève.
But ski professionals from the UK believe it is all part of the French trying to drive them off the slopes.
This has led to more than 100 protesters, including parents with children, standing outside the police station in support of the instructor.
Casey, 40, who is originally from Folkestone in Kent, has worked as an instructor in Megève for more than a decade, but is now officially banned from doing so because he lacks a French qualification.
He claims he was filming a group of British skiers on Tuesday when he was arrested by four gendarmes accompanied by government officials. Now he faces up to three months in prison for the offence of instructing without qualifications, reports the Daily Mail.
A spokesman for Megève police confirmed that Casey had been arrested on suspicion of illegal instructing, and was being questioned while in custody.
In January a decision by a court in Albertville to ban British ski hosts – those who help skiers find their way around the slopes – outraged British operators. See previous story.
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