diff --git a/scripts/criu-ns b/scripts/criu-ns
index 4c032aa1405..3c77b8eb496 100755
--- a/scripts/criu-ns
+++ b/scripts/criu-ns
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python3
+#!/usr/bin/env python
 import ctypes
 import ctypes.util
 import errno