How did a Russian passenger manage to fly from New York to Paris without a ticket or passport?

A 57-year-old passenger of Russian nationality managed to board clandestinely on a flight linking New York to Paris-Roissy-Charles de Gaulle, this Wednesday, November 27, we learned Le Figaro from consistent sources. Arriving on French territory, the border police (PAF) realized that she did not have any valid travel document. She was then placed “in the waiting area before being rerouted to the United States”country for which she has a residence permit, reports to Figaro a source close to the file, confirming information from Parisian . For now, she has still not taken her return flight.

After her trip aboard a Delta Airlines plane, she was heard for almost an hour by PAF services at the airport. During her hearing, she declared that she had been poisoned with polonium by the Russian secret services with the complicity of the American secret services. She therefore wanted to come to Europe to escape the Americans.

Cloistered in the airplane toilet

The fifty-year-old managed to slip into the middle of a group of travelers. Once on the plane, she immediately hid in the toilet. Six hours later, while the crew was putting in place security measures before landing at Roissy, a flight attendant was finally surprised to see the toilets occupied for so long. After a count of all the passengers, he quickly concluded that a stowaway was on board.

The stowaway claimed that her “green card” was no longer valid, but the authorities finally found that she could still use it, we assure the Figaro. She should therefore be able to return to the United States without problem. His Russian passport has expired. The passenger also did not have a European residence permit. She was also known to the national foreigners file, having made a request for political asylum, delivered in August 2022 and valid until September 2022.

According to our information, the passenger was to be rerouted to the United States aboard flight DL 265 to New York on November 30. But the measure of the French authorities could not be carried out, because the fifty-year-old “presented herself alone and without a police escort”we are told. “She was presented this Sunday to the judge of freedoms and detention (JLD), in order to obtain an extension of her retention in the waiting zone.” The hearing was still in progress this afternoon.