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Swedish student who grounded deportation flight faces prosecution
The Guardian ^ | David Crouch

Posted on 10/19/2018 12:14:57 PM PDT by Del Rapier

Sweden is to prosecute the 21-year-old student who single-handedly grounded an aircraft preparing to deport an Afghan asylum seeker.

Elin Ersson broadcast her one-woman protest on Facebook in July, during which she refused to sit down on the flight from Landvetter airport in Gothenburg, thereby preventing it from taking off. The video has been watched 13m times.

Several other passengers, including an entire football team, joined her protest and an asylum seeker was removed from the plane – to applause from passengers. On Friday, Swedish prosecutors announced that Ersson would be prosecuted at Gothenburg district court “for crimes against the aviation law” after the incident on 23 July. She had not complied with the captain’s request and had refused to sit despite repeated requests from the crew, prosecutors said. She faces a fine and up to six months in jail.

Onboard the plane, Ersson carried a photograph of the young Afghan whose deportation she and other asylum activists were seeking to prevent. However, after searching the flight she found he was not on board. She decided to continue her protest to prevent the deportation of another Afghan on the flight, who it emerged had a criminal record.

“I did it as an individual, activist and fellow human being,” she told Swedish media.

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: deportation; sweden
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To: Del Rapier

Dumb as a post.

Will learn nothing from her experience in prison.


21 posted on 10/19/2018 1:03:25 PM PDT by karnage
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To: chesley

Another Rapefugees welcome idiot.


22 posted on 10/19/2018 1:04:05 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Sweden among many white European countries will be dead withing twenty years. White Liberalism is the death of freedom and the greatest ally to Islam.


23 posted on 10/19/2018 1:17:21 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Del Rapier

“Looks kind of cute “

Like a dopey 12 year old


24 posted on 10/19/2018 1:18:19 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1)
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To: Del Rapier

She needs to serve that 6 months in Afghanistan


25 posted on 10/19/2018 1:18:21 PM PDT by McGavin999 ("The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Del Rapier

Let them all, including the entire football team, share a cell with one of these rapist/refugees. I think it might take less than a week to give them a proper education.


26 posted on 10/19/2018 1:18:55 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: Del Rapier

She should be deprived of flying for at least 25 years! Would make others like her think twice about their “feelings” overruling other people’s rights.


27 posted on 10/19/2018 1:20:12 PM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: beelzepug
All I see is a girl who’s as dumb as fifty pounds of lutefisk.

...and worse-smelling....

28 posted on 10/19/2018 1:26:35 PM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: Del Rapier

Here’s a recent UK example:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6273199/Somali-man-deportation-stopped-good-plane-passengers-revealed-gang-rapist.html

Idiots.


29 posted on 10/19/2018 1:32:19 PM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: Del Rapier

>>Looks kind of cute but she is doing something incredibly stupid.<<

Never put your johnson into crazy.

Never.


30 posted on 10/19/2018 1:39:20 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Always believe women except: clinton rape, ellison assault, booker groping, ted kennedy murder)
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To: Del Rapier

Couldn’t they have just escorted her off the plane, then the plane could have taken off, after she was out.


31 posted on 10/19/2018 1:57:35 PM PDT by Innovative
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To: Del Rapier

The type of Progressive/NAZI who would extradite a conservative like Kavanaugh off to Afghanistan in a heartbeat...


32 posted on 10/19/2018 2:10:53 PM PDT by Hypo2
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To: Del Rapier

I wonder what her father did to her to so make her HATE her birth country.


33 posted on 10/19/2018 2:57:44 PM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: Del Rapier

They should prosecute the football team too. She probably could have been taken off the plane and the flight continue if it hadn’t been for the idiot football players.


34 posted on 10/19/2018 5:58:55 PM PDT by falcon99
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To: freedumb2003
Never put your johnson into crazy.

"Never go to bed with a woman crazier than you."
Morley Dotes
The Garrett Files (Glen Cook)

35 posted on 10/19/2018 6:04:38 PM PDT by BlueLancer (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. (G.K. Chesterton))
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
I never get why these things turn into such big deals. Have two security guards or police pick her up and throw her sorry ass of the plane. Then close the door and continue on.

Yep. On any U.S. flight she'd have first been asked to comply. She'd have then been ordered to comply. There wouldn't have been a third time.

36 posted on 10/19/2018 6:06:52 PM PDT by Drew68 (Twitter @TheRealDrew68 https://twitter.com/TheRealDrew68)
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To: robowombat
Just another bleeding heart snowflake who doesn't look at the facts while spilling their emotions showing the world just how emotionally unstable snowflakes are!


37 posted on 10/19/2018 6:12:06 PM PDT by caww
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To: Del Rapier

The guy she was protecting was convicted for violent sexual assault , she had absolutely no knowledge of who she was trying to protect......Once again, a Leftist/liberal wants to help an illegal so SHE can feel good about herself — at the expense of legal citizens.......Hope they prosecute her to the fullest extent of the law!


38 posted on 10/19/2018 6:27:27 PM PDT by caww
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To: Vigilanteman

Same thing happened with the brits who delayed the deportation of a Somali gang rapist yaqubahmed because he was gonna be separated from his family...

These stupids are making victims of the perpetrators of horrible crimes just because they’re called “refugees”.


39 posted on 10/19/2018 6:37:23 PM PDT by caww
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