Kerim Chatty
Hijack suspect
Kerim Chatty (born 15 January 1973) is a Swedish man, who was suspected in 2002 of attempted aircraft hijacking and arrested at Stockholm Västerås Airport, as he was trying to board a Ryanair Flight 685 headed to the London Stansted Airport. He was subsequently released from police custody and the preliminary inquiry regarding attempted hijacking was dropped.
Chatty was born in Botkyrka south of Stockholm, to a Tunisian physiotherapist father and a Swedish mother. He had his first encounter with the police in 1991 when he was convicted of illegal driving. He was later convicted for several crimes such as assault, theft, handling stolen goods, and driving under the influence.
He was also devoted to martial arts and Muay Thai, winning a gold medal at a Swedish martial arts championship in 1994.
In September 1996 he was accepted into the North American Institute of Aviation in Conway, US, where he undertook some flight training courses, but was expelled from the school a few months later for "lack of progress" in the programme. Chatty returned to Sweden in 1997 and starred the same year in the Swedish film 9 millimeter alongside several noted Swedish actors. While serving a sentence for firearms possession at the Österåker Prison in 1998, he shared a cell with Oussama Kassir, a militant Islamist charged with terrorism who has said that he "loves al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden". Kassir said he became close friends with Chatty and was instrumental in his conversion to Islam.
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