FRENCH aviation security has been seriously questioned after an incident at Paris Charles de Gaulle where a powerful plastic explosive devise was actually lost in the airport. It seems that under a secret police training scheme the explosive was placed in a bag belonging to an innocent passenger, the idea being that police sniffer dogs would find the offending package. The trouble was that the dogs did not do their job properly and the passenger and explosive disappeared off on to a flight without realising it was there. French police said there is no danger from the package as the explosive needed a special detonator to make it work. Prime minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin has banned further training of this type. The explosive has yet to be found and could have gone out on any of 90 flights. In September ADF, the airport operating company had issued a statement extolling the virtues of the new CDG security arrangements.
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