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Ethiopian Airlines hijacking: asylum chances for the co-pilot "Not very high" (VIDEO)

Geneva, Switzerland - Controversy arises for Swiss Air Force's missed intervention

Geneva prosecutor Olivier Jornot explained that the chances of winning asylum for the co-pilot of the Ethiopian Airlines aircraft which was hijacked yesterday, Monday 17 February 2014, and which landed at the airport of the Swiss city are "Not very high", even if, as Jornot clarified, "Technically there is no connection between asylum and the fact he committed a crime to come here". The Boeing 767/300...

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Rome, Italy, 02/18/2014 12:24
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