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Swedish hijack accused remanded for two weeks
Monday, 2 September 2002 17:56
A Swedish court has ordered that a Swede accused of planning a hijack and other serious crimes, be detained for two weeks while police continue their investigations.
The court granted a request by prosecutors to remand Kerim Sadok Chatty in custody for two weeks.
The 29-year-old, who has a Tunisian father, was arrested at a small airport near Stockholm on Thursday as he tried to board a Ryanair flight to Stansted. A gun was found in his luggage.
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Inquiries are continuing to establish whether Chatty has any links to Osama bin-Laden's al Qaeda network.
A police spokesman had said earlier that initial investigations had shown that Mr Chatty was planning a crime unprecedented in its seriousness in Sweden.
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