Elin Ersson is a 21 year old Swedish social work student who boarded a
plane at Gothenburg airport yesterday and refused to sit down until an
Afghan asylum-seeker who was to be deported that day was offloaded and
allowed to remain in Sweden.
Ersson livestreamed her protest, which was planned when she and other
asylum activists learned that the man was due to be deported. Ersson
tangled with stewards who insisted that she stop streaming and sit down,
and passengers who wanted the flight to take off – as well as
passengers who supported her protest.
Eventually, the Afghan man was spared deportation and removed from the
plane, to applause from the other passengers. The crew declined to use
force to remove Ersson.
The Swedish government is performatively demonstrating its toughness by
deporting asylum-seekers in the runup to an election. A Swedish police
spokesman said that they would deport the man at a later date.
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