It has around 15,000 followers, all men, and is dedicated to raising money supposedly for social actions . This is the most visible face of Brooklyn, the Facebook group investigated for the diversion of the plane to Mallorca that served twenty Moroccans to enter Spain illegally.
The Efe Agency contacted several of its administrators to try to unravel what a group is dedicated to that you cannot access if you are not a member and on whose wall a plan very similar to what happened at Palma airport was published last July from Majorca.
“Guys, listen, most want to emigrate. Follow this plan: we need 40 volunteers. All the boys from Brooklyn who book on a plane to Turkey that flies over Spain,” reads this message, which explains that a passenger He had to simulate an illness to make an emergency landing on the plane and then everyone would flee . Exactly what happened on the Spanish island.
Efe was unable to join the group as the administrators had not agreed to send him an invitation, but one of them, under the condition of anonymity, confirmed that this publication was written by YS, although he added that he did it as “a joke” and not with the real intention of managing an attempted illegal emigration.
After the event in Palma and before the name of the group became public, YS himself posted a message on his social network wall saying that what happened shows that Brooklyn is “a legend” , to which he attached a screenshot of the post by plan published in July together with news of the event in Palma.
Hours later, he deleted it, as he also changed his profile picture, explaining that he was doing it so as not to be recognized as the author of the message . I also deleted that post later.
Contacted this Sunday by Efe by phone from Casablanca, YS explained that he is 32 years old and is an assistant in a dental clinic and denies having been the author of the post with the emigration plan, although he is concerned about the criminal consequences it may have.
It focuses on explaining the social aspect of Brooklyn, to indicate that it opened in 2016 and that since then it has raised half a million euros.In just one of their actions, the one they called “warm me up,” they raised 33,000 euros to buy blankets and food for 300 poor families in the mountains of Azilal province, in the center of the country, he says.
The group, which is not registered as a legal association , has an emblem with a black background and gold letters showing two muscular arms arm wrestling.
Dressed in black hoodies and masks emblazoned with that gold logo, its members can be seen in a video posted on Facebook handing out dozens of bags of clothing and food in a mountain town and posing with locals next to a banner that reads: “Brooklyn. Kingdom of Men” .
In addition to their charity work, the Brooklyn members are known for their sarcasm and rogue spirit . In 2018, dozens of members dressed as Saudi princes so that a famous Moroccan dancer agreed to animate a macro party that they organized in a luxurious event hall.
The dancer attended the event before discovering that all the public were Moroccans dressed in typical traditional clothing.who dresses in the Arabian peninsula. The media picked up the event, which has since given the group some fame in Morocco.
Now, its members deny that the message with the emigration plan was serious, although they are concerned about it.
“One of you activates the GPS and when he approaches Spain he begins to shout and insinuate illness. The stewardess will come to ask him for patience until he reaches Turkey. At this moment the others stand up to protest, alleging that the passenger is going to die,” he says. the publication
And he continues: “If everyone agrees, the plane will make a forced landing in Spain to protect the company’s reputation and to free itself from responsibility. After the forced landing they will take you to a terminal that is not the arrivals terminal, it is where This is the door from where the ‘sick person’ has to escape. Then the rest attack that exit together. The private security agent is not going to be able to stop you, there are no police in that place”.
To finish affirming that in the next few days they would organize it and encouraging them to participate: “Let those interested sign up.”
