Convictions and sanctions fall, two days after this exceptional operation.
On Sunday, a plane connecting Athens to Vilnius was diverted to Minsk.
On board, Roman Protassevich, a 26-year-old opposition journalist, and his partner Sofia Sapéga.
They were arrested at the airport.
The man is now detained in Minsk, the capital, according to an anonymous video shared on social networks and in which he speaks while sitting at a table, facing the camera, looking tired.
A video that "poses a problem", according to Pascal Boniface, director of the Institute of International and Strategic Relations, since it looks like videos of people "taken hostage by terrorist groups".
“Normally, it is terrorist groups that carry out acts of air piracy, not UN member states.
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The European Union has promised a "very strong response" against the regime of Alexander Lukashenko.
Monday evening, its leaders decided to close their airspace in Belarus.
They also recommended that European companies bypass Belarusian airspace, said European Council President Charles Michel's spokesman.
For the geopolitologist Pascal Boniface, “we have to take sanctions that really hurt”.
But measures taken at European level are not enough.
“If this movement is broader, more important at the level of the international community, it will be more embarrassing for Lukashenko.
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