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Verifiquem as vossas malas, podem ter lá explosivos

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PARIS - Somewhere in the world, there’s a navy blue suitcase with a small pack of explosives tucked in its side pocket.

Four days after police at Charles de Gaulle Airport slipped some plastic explosives into a random passenger’s bag as part of an exercise for sniffer dogs, it is still missing — and authorities are stumped and embarrassed.

But that does little to diminish the fact that the French airport security has been planting explosives in the suitcases of unsuspecting passengers — all in the name of safety.

“That’s pretty scary,” said Chadi Kawkabani, an American tourist wheeling his suitcase along the Champs-Elysees on Tuesday before heading to the airport.

“I picture myself opening my bag at home,” said Kawkabani, a marketing director from Boston. “You might think terrorists planted the explosive — and they could come to your house to get it back!”

“Imagine getting caught at your arrival,” said Laurence Grassiet, a 32-year-old Parisian hair stylist. “You’d be in for a hard time!”

Authorities believe the suitcase left Paris between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Friday and could have wound up on any of about 100 flights.

“There were flights that went to the United States, to Japan, South America,” said police spokesman Pierre Bouquin. “Basically, it could have gone anywhere — to the four corners of the world.”

Authorities at airports in New York and Los Angeles launched a fruitless search for the suitcase after French aviation officials issued a global alert to be on the lookout for the bag.

The training exercise was aimed at providing sniffer dogs a real-life airport scenario — a technique that has been used for years, said Bouquin.

Blame, in this case, cannot be placed on the dogs.

Two police officers involved in the exercise stashed a cell-phone sized pack of plastic explosives into the side pocket of the navy blue suitcase as it rolled along a conveyer belt.

One dog successfully identified the bag, but police then lost track of it when they went to fetch a second dog for the exercise.

“That’s how the explosives disappeared,” said Bouquin, noting that police have not lost hope of retrieving the explosives — someday.

“Sometimes, side pockets don’t get unpacked immediately. Maybe the person who has this product will find it in the future.”

Fonte: msnbc.msn.com
Este é um daqueles erros... :shock: o dono da mala deve ter tido uma surpresa brutal quando chegou a casa e a abriu.

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