Here's about all I see in today's British press about Air France security:
Killer was hired as Air France guard
Paul Webster in Paris
Wednesday December 31, 2003
The Guardian
The company put in charge of security for Air France flights employed a convicted murderer and a number of others with serious criminal records, it emerged yesterday.
The background of the guards was disclosed in a Paris court during a hearing to wind up the company, Pretory, which had been operating security on the French airline for more than two years but went into bankruptcy after tax fraud allegations.
The revelation of its lax recruiting methods coincided with the disclosure that armed French police have been flying with Air France to the US since December 23.
The government ordered the use of the gendarmerie after the US said that flights without armed escorts would be banned from overflying or landing, because of the fear of terrorism.
Last week Air France cancelled six transatlantic crossings at short notice after Washington said terrorists might be on board.
The airline refused to make any comment on a possible link with the use of a dodgy private company...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/airlines/s...114194,00.html