€18k award for man in botched airport terror test

THE innocent passenger who was caught up in a dramatic terrorist threat emergency in central Dublin after Slovakian police placed a bomb in his luggage has received €18,000 in compensation.

The Irish Examiner has established that Stefan Gonda was given the sum of money from the Slovakian government as a direct result of the botched airport police security test which put his life in danger.

In early January, gardaí raided Mr Gonda’s home on Dorset Street in central Dublin, where they found explosives and arrested the 49-year-old electrician.