She pleaded neither guilty nor not guilty to the charge of being a “stowaway” on a plane, an offense for which she faces “up to five years” of imprisonment and the possible loss of her title. of American residence, according to this judicial source.
This woman, whose photo appears in the tabloid press, will then explain how, and above all why, she wanted to embark towards Paris at all costs.
The fundamental rights of stowaways are violated in Belgium
On the evening of November 26, Ms. Dali managed to evade all passport, boarding pass and security checks at New York JFK airport and slipped onto a plane of the American company Delta Air Lines bound for Roissy-Charles. -de-Gaulle, near Paris, according to the written statement of an FBI police officer.
In particular, she gets involved with a team from the Spanish company Air Europa by deceiving the vigilance of the federal air transport security agency TSA.
She also managed to avoid electronic control when boarding and sneaked onto the night flight from New York to Paris, from November 26 to 27.
It was only over the Atlantic that Delta Air Lines staff realized that Ms. Dali was going back and forth to the bathroom, had no assigned seats, and was on board illegally.
-The company – which recognized in a press release an “incident” in the “procedures” – then warned the French police who arrested him when he got off the plane, “without passport or boarding pass”, according to the statement of the FBI which cites the French authorities.
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In fact, according to an airport source in Roissy, Ms. Dali was placed in a “waiting zone for people pending” on November 27, because she did not meet any of the conditions in any way to return to Europe.
She did not have valid travel documents, while having “a green card (Editor’s note: green card to reside and work legally in the United States) and an expired Russian passport”, according to this French source.
Twice, Ms. Dali was unwilling or unable to board a return flight to New York, before finally being placed on a Delta plane Wednesday evening.
She was arrested at JFK by the FBI to whom she “admitted to traveling as a stowaway knowing it was illegal.”
