Angry passengers storm out of a Siberian airport after hours of waiting for quarantine papers

A video filmed by a witness shows several women breaking down in tears, as others start yelling at policemen and officials as they push their way out of the waiting area before breaking out

 Russian tourists got upset and angry as they were forced to wait for several hours to sign self-quarantine declarations, crammed into a large crowd inside Krasnoyarsk airport. 

The flights from U-Tapao Pattaya airport landed within minutes of each other, carrying a total of 652 passengers.

All tourists were warned about the need to fill quarantine papers.

‘No-one will be able to leave the airport, there is police on duty’, said one of the local officials who came to greet the planes.

Troubles started when all passengers received their bags and queued up for the quarantine papers as there were only three officials from RosPotrebNadzor - Russia’s Consumer Rights watchdog - able to serve them. The papers for every traveller had to be done manually, and after several hours of waiting the crowd with tired children, pregnant women and several disabled passengers among them got irritated and upset. 

‘More than 600 people came here. The officials said they won’t let us out until we fill the papers, the situation grew really tense. The whole idiocy of it was that the biggest chance to get the virus was in a crowd, and this is precisely what they created. Why couldn’t they provide the blanks on board of the planes? Of course the crowd got infuriated’, one of the passengers said. 

A video filmed by a witness shows several women breaking down in tears, as others start yelling at policemen and officials as they push their way out of the waiting area before breaking out. 

Regional RosPotrebNadzor admitted they were not ready for the situation, and promised to adjust it for the future.