Malta jails Libyan hijacker for 25 years


  • World
  • Thursday, 03 Dec 2020

VALLETTA (Reuters) - One of two Libyan men who hijacked a plane and diverted it to Malta four years ago was jailed for 25 years by a Maltese judge on Wednesday.

The Afriqiyah Airlines Airbus 320 was on an internal flight to Tripoli when it was hijacked on Dec. 23, 2016 by the men, supporters of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

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