A man spends three months hiding at an airport for fear of COVID-19

New York- A judge has charged a man with entering a restricted area of ​​Chicago airport, where he lived for three months without being detected for fear of returning home and becoming infected with COVID-19, the newspaper reported on Monday. Chicago Tribune.

Aditya Singh, 36, assured authorities she was afraid to fly back home to California due to the pandemic, so she spent three months from October to last Saturday living in a restricted area of O ‘Hare International airport undetected.

Singh was arrested on Saturday after employees asked him to identify himself and showed a pass belonging to a worker in that restricted area of ​​the airport who had lost him.

The Californian lived for three months thanks to the food given to him by the passengers and his ability to escape caught the attention of the judge who decides that this is the case, who showed his disbelief at the hearing held this Sunday.

“If I understood correctly, I’m being told that a person who was not employed and was not authorized has been allegedly living in a safe part of the O’Hare Airport terminal since October 19, 2020 on January 16, 2021 undetected Did I understand correctly? “, Said Cook District Judge Susana Ortiz.

Singh resides in a Los Angeles neighborhood and has no background, so he may be released after paying a $ 1,000 bail and will have to appear in court next week.

The judge expressed his surprise that the man went three months without being detected and recalled that the event is very serious because it calls into question airport security.