GREECE: THREE LEBANESE HI-JACK SUSPECTS IN COURT

Record ID: 565999

  • Title: GREECE: THREE LEBANESE HI-JACK SUSPECTS IN COURT
  • Date: 26th December 1969
  • Summary: COURT BUILDING; PRESSMEN AND OFFICIALS; DEFENDANTS ARRIVE. Initials AJC/VS/AS/PC Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 10th January 1970 13:00
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  • Location: ATHENS, GREECE
  • Country: Greece
  • Reuters ID: LVA37JFJBSW7IK8F4NDQM09TTFCE
  • Story Text: THREE YOUNG LEBANESE ACCUSED OF PLANNING TO HI-JACK AN AIRLINER APPEARED BEFORE A MAGISTRATE IN ATHENS ON WEDNESDAY. AT A BRIEF HEARING, THEY WERE CHARGED WITH ILLEGAL POSSESSION OF ARMS AND EXPLOSIVES AND GIVEN UNTIL SATURDAY TO PREPARE THEIR DEFENCE.

    THE THREE DEFENDANTS, MISS MAH ABOU KHALIL, 22, ISSA DOUMIT, 18, AND SAMI ABBOUD, 20, WERE ARRESTED AT ATHENS AIRPORT LAST SUNDAY WHEN POLICE FOUND EXPLOSIVES, REVOLVERS AND GRENADES IN THEIR BAGGAGE. THEY WERE BOOKED ON A TRANS WORLD AIRWAYS JET TO NEW YORK VIA ROME.

    STRICT SECURITY MEASURES WERE IMPOSED INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE COURT BUILDING WHEN THE THREE WERE HURRIED INTO THE OFFICE OF THE INVESTIGATING MAGISTRATE. THE MEN WERE HANDCUFFED. ALL WERE SMARTLY DRESSED AND SMILED AT NEWSMEN AND PHOTOGRAPHERS.

    UNDER RECENT GREEK LEGISLATION, CONVICTION ON THE CHARGES CARRIES A PENALTY OF 10 YEARS TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT.
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