Chinese tourists snatch wine bottles in Air France flight

Two Chinese men on an Air France flight shocked a fellow passenger by snatching eight bottles of wine from the service cart, creating online furore with many questioning the growing rough behaviour of Chinese people abroad, often embarrassing their compatriots.
Wen Fei, a Chinese woman who works in Paris, complained in weibo, China's Twitter-like service, about her encounter with the two men who sat near her on flight from Paris to China's central Wuhan city on last Friday.
Wen said she tried to stop them after they each took at least eight bottles of wine and stowed them in their bags - without asking the flight crew.

"I explained to them it was not OK and interpreted the flight attendants' explanation in French, but they said it was none of my business," Wen told the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post.
The two men, apparently drunk, then shouted at Wen in the Wuhan dialect, she said.
"They asked me to back off if I ever wanted to leave Wuhan in one piece," said Wen.

"This kind of behaviour is demeaning for the Chinese travelling abroad," she said.
She also posted a picture she had secretly taken of one of the two men. The photo shows a middle-aged man wearing glasses and well-dressed.

Wen's post struck a chord with many netizens who said they, too, find the behaviour of some Chinese travellers appalling.
"The Chinese are always loud and jump queues to get on a flight � even when everyone has a seat," said a netizen.