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Delta Air Lines has refused to transport the Russian woman who stowed away on a flight from New York to Paris last week, a Paris airport official told CNN.

She was scheduled to leave France on a flight at 2:30 p.m. local time (8:30 a.m. ET) on Tuesday, a Paris airport official told CNN.

According to the official, the woman was on board the plane when Delta refused to fly her. “We will try to send them back with a French escort,” the official said.

The 57-year-old woman passed through several security checkpoints at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York and boarded a plane to Paris last week.

She was scheduled to fly to the United States on Saturday afternoon, but French authorities removed her from the plane after she began screaming, according to an official.

A man who was on the plane told CNN that the woman was sitting across from him and his family in the aisle.

“She kept saying, ‘I don’t want to go back to the United States.’ “Only a judge can force me to return to the United States,” said Gary Treichler.

The woman was to be accompanied by six U.S. marshals on the flight back to New York on Tuesday, authorities said.

Authorities in the US are continuing to investigate how the woman sneaked onto the first Delta flight without a ticket.

Transportation Security Administration inspectors are preparing a civil case against the stowaway after reviewing airport security videos from John F. Kennedy International Airport, agency spokeswoman Alexa Lopez told CNN.

“TSA will pursue civil proceedings against passengers if there is evidence that procedures may have been violated,” Lopez said. The TSA cannot file criminal charges, but it can refer them to the Department of Justice.

Delta has not said how the woman was able to board the plane after passing through the TSA checkpoint.

The airline said it was “conducting a full investigation into what may have happened” but declined to comment further.