Malala Yousafzai sympathizes with Mexican who disrupted Nobel ceremony

WATCH ABOVE: Man jumps onstage with Malala Yousafzai during Nobel awards ceremony, unfurls Mexican flag

OSLO – Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai has expressed sympathy for a Mexican asylum seeker who briefly disturbed the awards ceremony by jumping onto the stage and waving his county’s flag.

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The Pakistani laureate said Thursday that his actions indicate “there are problems in Mexico.”

Oslo police said the 21-year-old, who has applied for political asylum in Norway, was fined 15,000 kroner ($2,100) for disturbing the peace and sent back to an asylum centre. He was quickly whisked away by a security guard but police were unable to explain how he had managed to enter Oslo City Hall without an invitation amid tight security.

Malala, the survivor of a Taliban shooting attack, shared the Peace Prize with Kailash Satyarthi of India on Wednesday for risking their lives to protect children’s rights.