Swedish student who grounded deportation flight faces prosecution

Elin Ersson broadcast her protest against Afghan asylum seeker’s removal on Facebook

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.

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