Minister Kubice explains airport incident

Interior Minister Jan Kubice on Tuesday briefed Parliament on the outcome of an investigation relating to a breach of security at Prague’s Ruzyně Airport last month. In order to test security at the airport a journalist from Aktualne.cz got himself hired as an airport guard and smuggled several banned items past clearance, including a knife, a fake bomb and a pepper spray. The interior minister said this was due to the negligence of an employee whose job it was to check all employees entering the airport. Mr. Kubice said no systematic mistakes had been revealed. He said security had been reinforced and promised that the security measures would be revised if they failed a second time.