Lovejacker never asked to see wife, wanted to make a statement -Lawyer

Lovejacker update: Plane hijacker Seif Eddin Mustafa never asked to see his former wife during the time he hijacked a domestic EgyptAir flight and diverted it to Cyprus, lawyer Nicoletta Charalambidou said, according to Cyprus Mail. The demand “is a myth possibly created and perpetuated by the Cypriot authorities in order to assign a motive other than fear of political persecution to him,” the lawyer says. She adds that Mustafa wanted to hijack a flight and divert it to Italy and “make a statement about the persecution of political beliefs in Egypt and secure the release of women political activists currently in prison there.” The European Court of Human Rights blocked a Cypriot court order to extradite Mustafa to Egypt until its investigators could examine the case.