Sunday, December 05, 2004
French Security Test Goes Awry
--French Police Misplace Explosives On Jet
PARIS, Dec. 5—Police at Paris' top airport lost track of a passenger's bag in which plastic explosives were placed to train bomb-sniffing dogs, police said Saturday. Warned that the bag may have gotten on any of nearly 90 flights from Charles de Gaulle, authorities searched planes upon arrival in Los Angeles and New York.
However, officials in the French government could not explain why the planes were allowed to take off before the exercise concluded, and indeed referred all further questions to the head of the Surete, Commissioner Louis Dreyfus. Dreyfus's office declined comment, stating the Commissioner is still recovering from a mishap in a recent letter bomb test after the letter was returned to the Surete for insufficient postage.
PARIS, Dec. 5—Police at Paris' top airport lost track of a passenger's bag in which plastic explosives were placed to train bomb-sniffing dogs, police said Saturday. Warned that the bag may have gotten on any of nearly 90 flights from Charles de Gaulle, authorities searched planes upon arrival in Los Angeles and New York.
However, officials in the French government could not explain why the planes were allowed to take off before the exercise concluded, and indeed referred all further questions to the head of the Surete, Commissioner Louis Dreyfus. Dreyfus's office declined comment, stating the Commissioner is still recovering from a mishap in a recent letter bomb test after the letter was returned to the Surete for insufficient postage.
