POLITICAL ASYLUM
Hijackers Of Airliner (N.Z.P. A. -Reuter—Copyright) PARIS, October 22. France will grant political asylum to two East Germans alleged to have forced a Polish airliner to land at Tegel Airport in the French sector of West Berlin last Sunday, a French Government official said yesterday. “We shall grant these two men political asylum—that is French tradition,” the official said.
“We are studying what legal action to take, although we do not think there will be any on the grounds that there is no international agreement against hijacking,” he said.
The official said the three Allied military commanders in West Berlin would probably protest to the Soviet military commander against a flight of MIG jets which tried to force the airliner back on to its original course. The French announcement came as Poland demanded that the two men be handed over immediately to the Polish authorities.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32127, 24 October 1969, Page 8
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