Cyprus’s interior minister says a man who has admitted hijacking a domestic EgyptAir flight and diverting it to Cyprus is claiming political asylum.
Socrates Hasikos said 59-year-old Seif Eddin Mustafa’s asylum claim would be examined before a request by Egyptian authorities for his extradition.
Cyprus’s attorney general, Costas Clerides, has said Mustafa is fighting his extradition and has hired a lawyer.
Last month’s hijacking ended peacefully six hours after Mustafa – described by Cypriot authorities as “psychologically unstable” – forced the Airbus A320 to land in Cyprus’s main Larnaca airport by threatening to blow it up with a fake suicide belt. Mustafa was arrested when he stepped off the plane after all 72 passengers and crew were released.
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