EgyptAir hijack: CCTV footage shows Seif Eldin Mustafa walking through airport security
Seif Eldin Mustafa took control of flight MS181 with a fake suicide vest before the six-hour hostage crisis
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Your support makes all the difference.CCTV footage has emerged of the alleged EgyptAir hijacker walked through airport security before the six-hour hostage crisis.
The film, released by the Eygpt Ministry of Interior, shows the man loading his bag to be scanned, before he walks through a metal detector and is patted down at Alexandria International Airport.
Seif Eldin Mustafa took control of flight MS181 with a fake suicide vest, consisting of a number of phone cases tied together with cloth, according to authorities in Egypt and Cyprus.
At a press conference after the hijacker's arrest, Cyprus' Foreign Affairs Minister Ioannis Kasoulides said the suspect surrendered voluntarily, and was in a fragile mental state.
Discussing his motives, officials said he kept asking for "many things," including to go to another airport and speak to an EU official, along with his previously-documented demands to see his ex-wife and for the release of political prisoners.
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