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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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Looks kind of cute but she is doing something incredibly stupid.
1 posted on 10/19/2018 12:14:57 PM PDT by Del Rapier
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To: Del Rapier

Left wing liberals from Sweden are among the worst in the world. Why? Because Swedes think they know everything, smartest in the world, etc.


2 posted on 10/19/2018 12:24:27 PM PDT by Professional
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These people have a bad case of Liberal Death Wish.


3 posted on 10/19/2018 12:24:36 PM PDT by robowombat (Orthodox)
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The mooselimb being deported was guilty of a brutal gang rape of minor. So what is this chick’s problem? Disappointed it wasn’t her? Deport them both, let her enjoy her new life in the middle east.


4 posted on 10/19/2018 12:24:39 PM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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Meh. A South Dakota 5 and Swedish 4.

5 posted on 10/19/2018 12:25:06 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: rigelkentaurus

The stupid is strong in this one.


6 posted on 10/19/2018 12:28:07 PM PDT by chesley (What is life but a long dialog with imbeciles? - Pierre Ryckmans)
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“Deport them both, let her enjoy her new life in the middle east.”

Exactly. I can almost guarantee she’ll be whistling a different tune after being passed around from Jihadi to Jihadi at some camp in Afghanistan.


7 posted on 10/19/2018 12:29:26 PM PDT by MplsSteve
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“Looks kind of cute “

Like a dopey 12 year old


8 posted on 10/19/2018 12:30:07 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1)
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MORE ON THIS IDIOT>>>
https://heavy.com/news/2018/07/elin-ersson/


9 posted on 10/19/2018 12:32:01 PM PDT by dennisw
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I look at her picture and see smug.


10 posted on 10/19/2018 12:34:10 PM PDT by alternatives? (Why have an army if there are no borders?)
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‘It’s dangerous in Afghanistan.
Let’s bring Afghanistan here.’


11 posted on 10/19/2018 12:34:16 PM PDT by A strike (Academia is almost as racist as Madison Avenue.)
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“continue her protest to prevent the deportation of another Afghan on the flight, who it emerged had a criminal record.”

Maybe they should release her into his custody for about a month.


12 posted on 10/19/2018 12:43:27 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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during which she refused to sit down on the flight

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.

13 posted on 10/19/2018 12:46:21 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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Sweden as a country appears to have a national death wish. It has been covering up Muslim rapes of Swedish women and championing unfettered immigration of Muslims to their country. The fact that the immigrant this brain dead girl was trying to help was being deported says a lot. He must have committed some serious crimes, otherwise he would not have been kicked out.
14 posted on 10/19/2018 12:48:21 PM PDT by Nevadan
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"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."

....and this boys and girls, is why Sweden is the rape capital of the world.

15 posted on 10/19/2018 12:51:46 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”)
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Sweden is to prosecute ...

I don't see how they'll get a conviction. SJWs seem to be the majority of the population, as evidenced by the solidarity and applause of her fellow passengers.

16 posted on 10/19/2018 12:55:29 PM PDT by Spirochete (GOP: Gutless Old Party)
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But way too high on the crazy axis.


17 posted on 10/19/2018 12:56:12 PM PDT by C19fan
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To: Snickering Hound

Put this crazy on a No Fly List


18 posted on 10/19/2018 12:58:56 PM PDT by butlerweave
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“I look at her picture and see smug.”

All I see is a girl who’s as dumb as fifty pounds of lutefisk.


19 posted on 10/19/2018 1:00:29 PM PDT by beelzepug (The permanent political class that runs this country is...the great(est) danger we face)
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To: Del Rapier

Execute her before she destroys your civilization.


20 posted on 10/19/2018 1:00:56 PM PDT by The Toll
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