Thessaloniki: 16-month suspended prison sentence for the drunken passenger who caused the forced landing of an aircraft – What he argued

16 months imprisonmentwith a 3-year suspension, imposed by the Three-member Misdemeanor Court of Thessaloniki on the 41-year-old foreigner, who was probably under the alcohol influence, caused tension during an air flight – from Istanbul to Tunis – as a result of which the captain of the aircraft carried out emergency landing to “Macedonia” International Airportwhere he was arrested by EL.AS men.

The incident happened yesterday morning, while during the identity check the airport police officers found that there is a pending conviction in his name from the court of Athens, by which he was sentenced to 8 years in prison for a drug case.

The defendant, originally from Tunisia, was tried today in the automatic procedure and was found guilty – among other things – of disrupting flight safety. In his apology, he did not mention anything about drunkenness but admitted that he created tension. Describing his own version of the incident, he said that he is diabetic and due to hypoglycemic shock he suffered during the flight he asked the staff to eat something sweet. “They brought me bread, that made me angry and I threw it down. They told me ‘you won’t eat anything if you don’t like it,'” he noted.

He appealed against the decision but was not released as the sentencing decision is pending, for which he will appear again tomorrow in the Courts of Thessaloniki. Referring to the 8-year imprisonment, he said that it has nothing to do with the case, that it is probably another person, as he himself – as he said – has two names and that at the time of the performance of the act attributed to him he was not in Greece.

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