EclipseLink: usage of query redirectors on subclass-entities with JOINED strategy

Question

My entity-class hierarchy starts with a MappedSuperclass providing a "status" attribute and declaring a query redirector in case of "delete":

@MappedSuperclass
@AdditionalCriteria(value = "this.entityStatus <> 'DELETED'")
@QueryRedirectors(delete = LogicDeleteInterceptor.class)
public abstract class AStatusEntity
{
    private String entityStatus;
    ...
}

Then a User entity, deriving from AStatusEntity, declaring the JOINED strategy for further subclasses:

@Entity
@Table(name = "USERS")
@Inheritance(strategy = InheritanceType.JOINED)
public class User extends AStatusEntity
{
    ...
}

And finally a UserProfile entity, deriving from User:

@Entity
@Table(name = "USER_PROFILE")
public class UserProfile extends User
{
    ...
}

The User entity properly inherits the delete redirector, so that it gets soft-deleted (status = "DELETED") when I call "remove" on it.

For UserProfile things are different: when I call "remove" on a UserProfile entity instance, the delete redirector is ignored (any breakpoint in the redirector body is ignored during the debug) and EclipseLink trys to hard delete the UserProfile row on the DB and the User row too (JOINED strategy => two different tables).

I have tried applying the redirector on the UserProfile class itself, like this:

@Entity
@Table(name = "USER_PROFILE")
@QueryRedirectors(delete = LogicDeleteInterceptor.class)
public class UserProfile extends User
{
    ...
}

But it is still ignored and a hard-delete is attempted.

What am I missing?...

ENVIRONMENT: EclipseLink version is 2.6.3 | Oracle JVM 1.8.0_91 x64 | execution environment: Apache Karaf OSGi container version 4.0.4 |OS: Ubuntu Linux x86_64