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Lawmakers Agree that Airport Security Bungle Is Intl Embarrassment
Thursday 07 January 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, January 7 (TASR) - In rare show of political unity, lawmakers of every stripe view the most recent incident, when a Slovak man was found in Ireland to have unwittingly flown in explosives planted into his luggage by Slovak authorities in a bungled airport security exercise, as international embarrassment.
Having apologised to the the Irish justice minister, Interior Minister Robert Kalinak (Smer-SD) blamed the incident as a stupid mistake on the part of certain individuals in police force.
"Ridicule earned by Slovakia abroad is not good. I believe he should take a more serious look at the affair. He played down the whole thing," said co-ruling LS-HZDS MP Jan Kovarcik opining that the minister should stand down over the matter.
He is echoed by the coalition partner, SNS caucus chairman Rafael Rafaj saying Slovakia has become untrustworthy amid the case. Every politician should reconsider their staying in the post afterwards, he added.
In contrast to Kalinak, SDKU-DS lawmaker and former defence minister Martin Fedor thinks that the incident is not a failure of a individual but of the entire system. According to him, putting an explosive into the luggage of an unsuspecting citizen is immoral and unacceptable and unlawful. Minister Kalinak, according to him, is responsible for the incident.
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