"Unbelievable indeed"

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After the Turks, the French are now also causing a stir with their anything but environmentally friendly and sustainable travel behavior: After the round of 16 victory against Belgium (1:0), "Les Bleus" took a charter flight of no less than 28 minutes for their return journey from Düsseldorf to their team camp in Bad Lippspringe. This is now causing a stir in Germany ...

Werner Reh, traffic officer for the "BUND für Umwelt und Naturschutz" (Friends of the Earth Germany), was highly irritated by the French team's actions. "This is indeed unbelievable. It's one of the most absurd examples I've heard so far. I assume that the bottom line is that the team has even lost time."

Night flight ban lifted for Mbappé and co.
Apart from the fact that the ban on night flights in Düsseldorf was lifted for Kylian Mbappé and Co., it seems strange that the French team would hardly have taken any longer to get back to Bad Lippspringe if they had taken the bus, as the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger was able to calculate.

Because even though the flight from Düsseldorf may have only taken 28 minutes: First of all, they had to drive from the stadium to Düsseldorf airport and then the Boeing 737-300 had to land in Paderborn, from where it took another 30 minutes by bus to get to the team camp ...