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With hidden controls at Germany’s largest airport in Frankfurt am Main, the EU Commission has apparently revealed significant security risks. The examiners had succeeded at every other attempt to smuggle weapons or dangerous objects through the passenger screening, reported the newspaper “Bild am Sonntag”. The main reason for the call of the problems classified as secret report poorly trained personnel contracted service providers. So the staff had about the X-rays can not interpret them correctly in the hand luggage checks, it said.
The European Commission confirmed that there were safety tests at Europe’s airports on a regular basis. The spokesman in Brussels would not comment on the results of individual airports but. After Tagesspiegel information the tests in Frankfurt in early November took place already. Also responsible for airport security Federal Police and the aeronautical authorities of the countries shall ensure that employees of private security firms regularly to the test – but not as often
A spokesman for the federal police said the “Bild am Sonntag”. “We have introduced emergency measures to ensure the safety of the passengers again. “This also explains the currently long waiting times. Explained the spokesman for the European Commission, tests should identify safety deficiencies of the States shall ensure that will reworked and defects were eliminated quickly.
196 hours training are required
The airport operator Fraport confirmed that Frankfurt as well as some other European airports had been asked to rework. Fraport spokesman Christopher Holschier said that two companies controlled the passengers at Frankfurt Airport: I-SEC and the airport operator Fraport itself alone in a retraining of 2,500 employees had been initiated.. The coaches are increasingly present at the tests themselves. Labor law consequences were not planned. The Federal Police do several times a month without notice and concealed so-called real tests so that could be detected error and shut down. “The results will not be made public,” said Fraport spokesman Holschier.
For the actual training of the staff of the passenger checks are Holschiers words after 196 hours required. The Federal Police formulate the requirements and take on the final test. The new re-training lasted for eight to ten hours.
No comment from the Berlin airports
According to the “Bild am Sonntag”, the EU Commission threatens even so, the airport as “non-Schengen classify Airport “, the measures should not apply. Then air travelers in Frankfurt would undergo when entering other EU countries another security screening. The move would be a huge loss of image and face longer waiting times. When Airports Association on Sunday could not imagine that Fraport could be subject to a penalty so hard.
“This must not happen, of course. That certainly did not go well in Frankfurt, “said chief executive Ralph Beisel ADV-the Tagesspiegel. But the bottom line is, these controls would increase confidence in the processes. “I am reassured that mitigation measures have been taken immediately”. Beisel said he had full confidence in the continued work of the federal police.
The extent to which such tests at other German airports discloses similar vulnerabilities, is unclear. According Beisel, the insight into the confidential reports has, there are such cases only every few years. Anja Pest, spokeswoman for the federal police said on Sunday it had no defects at Berlin Tegel and Schönefeld come to my attention. In the capital, police have assigned the task of following a call to the security firm Securitas. Their staff would check, but stood officers ready – if necessary – to intervene. Ralf Kunkel, spokesman for the Berlin airports, would not comment on the story. It’m going to the Frankfurt airport, he said. (with AP)
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