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The Malta-Catania flight, which took off this Monday at 6 a.m. from Luqa International Airport, was forced to return to the departure airport because a female passenger stubbornly refused to wear a coronavirus mask despite insistent warnings from the crew. , including that it would be reported and handed over to the police.
Freya Angeolova Moutafova, 24, an Italian citizen residing in Bulgaria, refused to wear the mask during the flight to the Sicilian capital, even when she was reminded of the risk it posed to other passengers and crew in the midst of a pandemic of Covid-19, which is approaching two million deaths in the world.
The Air Malta flight commander was forced to return to the Maltese airport, where the woman was disembarked and handed over to police, Maltese media reports.
Freya Angeolova Moutafova was arrested and taken to court, where she
admitted to having disobeyed the orders of the crew
.
Judge Donatella Frondo Dimech, upon reading the sentence (six months in prison), severely admonished the passenger, stressing that her behavior
"cannot be tolerated
.
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