A Melbourne man is facing up to seven years in prison over an alleged indecent assault on an international flight on Monday.

The Australian Federal Police have alleged 71-year-old Mounir Botros indecently assaulted a female passenger while she tried to sleep on a flight from Los Angeles to Melbourne.

“The woman reported to airline crew during the flight that a man had allegedly touched her inappropriately and reached inside her clothes while she tried to sleep during a flight on 22 September, 2025,” the AFP said in a statement released on Wednesday.

“Crew members moved the woman to a different seat for the remainder of the flight and alerted the AFP, who met the flight when it landed and interviewed the man, 71, and witnesses.”

Botros faced the Broadmeadows Magistrates Court on Wednesd

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