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Unusual way to request asylum

(SRF 10vor10, swissinfo.ch)

A 31-year-old co-pilot working for Ethiopian airlines shut his captain out of the cockpit and flew the plane to Geneva rather than the intended destination, Italy, in order to ask for asylum in Switzerland. The hijacker could face a stiff sentence.

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