December 21, 2014
plane lands at the airport in Frankfurt Photo: DAPD / Archive
For a safety test covert EU auditors smuggle easily weapons through security. This could have consequences: The EU Commission threatens the Frankfurt airport as “non-Schengen airport” classified
With hidden controls at Germany’s largest airport in Frankfurt, the European Commission has discovered after a media report explosive safety risks. The examiners had succeeded at every other attempt to smuggle weapons or dangerous objects through the passenger screening, the “Bild am Sonntag” reported (BamS). The main reason for the call of the problems classified as secret report poorly trained personnel contracted service providers. For example, the employee could have about the X-rays in the hand luggage checks not interpret them correctly.
The European Commission confirmed regular security checks at airports in Europe. The spokesman in Brussels wanted the results of individual airports but did not comment.
Available on request of the German Press Agency confirmed the airport operator Fraport that Frankfurt as well as some other European airports to improvements in security had been invited.
History of the Frankfurt airport <> / p>
In 1936, the “aircraft and airship port Rhein-Main”, as the airport was then called, put into operation. In the following decades the Frankfurt airport was always the construction site. Often the growth plans of resistance from the population were accompanied. In the 1950s, however, it was still quiet and on the edge of the field to start, as this photo shows.
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A representative of the Frankfurt airport said the “Bild am Sonntag” that currently 2,500 people were newly trained so suspicious objects could no longer pass the checks. “We take this very seriously.” Labor law consequences should there be no moment
A spokesman for the Federal Police told the newspaper. “We have taken immediate action to ensure the safety of the passengers again . “This also explains the currently long waiting times.
defects with consequences
The speaker explained the EU Commission, the tests should identify safety deficiencies which states would have ensure that defects will reworked and would be removed quickly.
According to the report, the EU Commission threatens to classify the airport as “non-Schengen airport”, the measures should not apply. Then air travelers in Frankfurt would undergo when entering other EU countries another security screening.
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In February the Frankfurt Airport CEO Stefan Schulte had said, new technology could accelerate the control and make it more enjoyable. He referred about a novel body scanners, which could also detect non-metallic, potentially dangerous objects and would make the scanning of passengers unnecessarily.
In the long term could also think about graded passenger checks, Schulte added at the time. Here, passengers would, for example, previously voluntarily undergo a more in-depth review of their personal data, so that the checks at the airport could even be correspondingly less extensive. (AP)
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