Legal Case Of Moroccan Girl Who Terrified Passengers By Threatening To Blow Up Turkish Plane

The Court of the suburban municipality of Dar Beida, east of Algiers, on Tuesday tried a 24-year-old Moroccan girl who faced charges of threatening the security of air traffic that caused a high level of alert on the plane of the Turkish Airlines, bound for the Moroccan city of Casablanca, after the crew received a false warning about the existence of a bomb on board the aircraft, which was then crossing the Algerian airspace.
This untoward incident touched off a state of horror and panic among passengers, but it turned out later on that the young woman hijacker was suffering from addiction to drugs compounded by a mental disorder.
According to the legal representative of the Turkish Airline Company, the facts date back to last July 2017, when the plane’s crew was surprised by the screams of a female passenger uttering incomprehensible words, who ran towards the plane’s toilets carrying a strange material which she threw inside, before closing the door’s toilets strongly.
She then warned loudly the crew members that the plane would explode in 10 minutes, thus steeping about 300 passengers into a whirlpool of utter fear and panic.
The crew decided to stop more than three hours at Houari Boumediene airport of Algiers and to declare a state of emergency.
In consultation with the authorities, a total evacuation of the aircraft was carried out and the young deranged Moroccan young woman was finally rounded up by the airport’s security forces.
On the other hand, Turkish Airlines established itself as a civil party in the case, and its defense lawyers argued that the incident was the work of a terrorist group that planned to blow up the Turkish plane.
They cited information secured during the investigation into the identity and motives of the accused.
The Court finally decided to postpone the final examining of the case until next week, after the General Prosecutor required in a first hearing a sentence of 3 years in prison against the defendant.