Botched Slovak police test sparks explosives scare

JUSTICE Minister Dermot Ahern has asked for a full Garda report into how explosives were brought into Ireland following a botched security operation by Slovak police.

Botched Slovak police test sparks explosives scare

A spokeswoman for Mr Ahern said the minister had spoken to the Slovak Interior Minister Robert Kalinak, who apologised for the incident and agreed to co-operate with the Garda inquiry.

In a bizarre security operation, an innocent Slovak national living in Ireland unwittingly carried commercial explosives through Dublin Airport after Slovak border police placed them in his baggage, and that of other innocent passengers, as part of a test.

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