Morocco’s Supreme Court has given its approval for the extradition to Switzerland of a Lebanese man who hijacked a plane in 1987, the Maghreb Arabe Presse is reporting.
Hussein Hariri had escaped a Swiss jail where he was serving a 20-year sentence, after he hijacked an Air Afrique plane en route from Brazzaville to Paris, with 148 passengers on board.
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Swiss authorities arrested the 37 year old when the plane stopped in Geneva to refuel.
Moroccan police arrested him in Casablanca in December 2002.