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| Report: Security Gaps Found at Germany's Biggest Airport |
| 2014-12-22 |
| [ANahar] An EU probe has found major security lapses at Germany's biggest airport in Frankfurt enabling weapons and other items to be smuggled through passenger safety checks, a newspaper said Sunday. The failings, detected in an undercover European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... -commissioned investigation, were largely down to badly trained staff, Germany's Bild am Sonntag weekly said. Investigators managed, on every second attempt, to smuggle weapons or dangerous substances through security, it said. The newspaper quoted police front man Christian Altenhofen as saying that immediate measures had been introduced to ensure the safety of passengers. Bild said the main problem was poorly trained staff from the company commissioned to provide the security service. The EU report unearthed an apparent inability by many workers to interpret X-ray images correctly during hand luggage screening, it said. "We take that very seriously," Bild quoted airport front man Christopher Holschier as saying. "Altogether 2,500 staff are currently being re-trained so that suspect items no longer pass through the checks," he was quoted as also saying. Bild said the EU Commission declined to comment on the report's findings. But it said that if the Commission finds shortcomings again, it is threatening to classify Frankfurt as a non-Schengen airport, referring to the EU's visa-free travel zone. This would mean that passengers transiting through the hub would face further security checks on arrival in other EU member states. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 This, probably, not counting all the Muzzies employed in Frankfurt's airport. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-12-22 04:00 |
| #1 5 September 1972 The Munich Massacre was a terrorist attack during the 1972 Olympic Games. Eight Palestinian terrorists killed two members of the Israeli Olympic team and then took nine others hostage. The situation was ended by a huge gunfight that left five of the terrorists and all of the nine hostages dead. Following the massacre, the Israeli government organized a retaliation against Black September, called Operation Wrath of God. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-12-22 00:27 |