French President Francois Hollande responded to the Bolvian accusations of preventing the country’s president from flying over the French territories.

French President Francois Hollande responded to the Bolvian accusations of preventing the country's president from flying over the French territories.

Hollande considered that there was conflicting information about the passengers who were on board, but "when I knew it was the plane of the Bolivian president, I immediately gave permission for it to fly" over French territory."

A Bolivian jet set off from Moscow and was obliged to divert its flight path late Tuesday to Vienna on suspicion it was harbouring fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden, who is wanted by the U.S.

Bolivian officials have accused France, Portugal, Italy and Spain of denying entry to the jet over "unfounded rumors" that Snowden was on board.

The Bolivian President Evo Morales had announced that his country would grant Snowden an asylum if he submitted a request.

The event caused a bitter row as Morales considered it a 13-hour kidnapping and announced that his country filed a complaint to the United Nations.

The jet then stopped at Las Palmas airport on the Spanish island of Gran Canaria for an hour before  resuming to Bolivia.

In La Paz, the Bolivian capital, dozens of protestors hailed stones on the French embassy, burned the French flag, and screamed "Hypocrite France."