Slovaks apologise for Irish bomb fiasco

[Flying Fox]

Slovaks apologise for Irish bomb fiasco | The Australian

The incredible chain of events included a pilot taking off with the explosives on board, the Slovaks failing to tell the Dublin airport or police about the incoming ordnance, and the man's arrest days later as Ireland's bomb squad closed in....

The drama began on Saturday when a policeman in Slovakia slipped 96 grams of plastic explosive into Stefan Gonda's check-in luggage without his knowledge at the Poprad-Tatry Airport in central Slovakia as he and his wife were returning home to Ireland after a Christmas visit.

Talk about a total screw-up! Glad it wasn't me!

 

[anat0l]

What half-brain sets up a detection test by slipping explosives into an innocent traveller's bag?

I'd be treating this as a serious international crime and I hope people will be reprimanded, made accountable and the affected adequately compensated (with a very minimum a personal apology and reassurance of their innocence). The fact that it was explosives...it could well have been drugs or a real time bomb. Worse, an innocent person was caught up in the crossfire - I'm glad that the Slovaks picked up on the "error" before this man would have been interrogated and treated as a national security risk and incarcerated.

But it was still an absolutely stupid thing to do.

 

[samh004]

So, they use civilians, tourists even, to test their bomb squad works. Then when they lose their explosives, they give vague tip offs to the other countries police service which results in them closing an intersection and arresting him for something he’s been told about the night before.

At the bottom of the article is states the pilot knew before take-off, but when assured it wouldn’t explode took off anyway, but then they waited 3 days to phone him?

I don’t know why Slovakia thinks it should be taken seriously.

I hope the Irish compensate the man and bill Slovakia for it.

 

[anat0l]

When I come to think about it, news teams have been trying to get reporters past security with various objects in order to generate a story about the failure of such security systems.

Some of them have been successful, but seeing as litigating the journalists for breach of security would be self-destructive in a most PR sense, they seem to get away with it

 

[Flying Fox]

The long list of mistakes and errors is very impressive for all the wrong reasons. I really feel sorry for the poor guy who got arrested for doing nothing wrong.

He should be heavily compensated indeed.