Security leak at Rome FCO: Security area open at night
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Security leak at Rome FCO: Security area open at night
Rome's Fiumichino airport is left unattended and open at night.
A journalist from Italian's Magazine L'Espresso was able to walk through switched off metall scanners and unmanned security checkpoints twice into security areas as well as operate baggage belts at check-incounters and access internal computers, as he describes in his article Bomba Fiumichino (Italian) / Bomb Fiumichino (English translation by Google).
Unbelievable!
A journalist from Italian's Magazine L'Espresso was able to walk through switched off metall scanners and unmanned security checkpoints twice into security areas as well as operate baggage belts at check-incounters and access internal computers, as he describes in his article Bomba Fiumichino (Italian) / Bomb Fiumichino (English translation by Google).
Unbelievable!
This the same as the British Tabloid Press, and probably the same throught the world that confidently proclaim through their stories and pictures how lax the security is at airports and planes by 'smuggling' knives and powders onto flights
I would love it, (Kevin Keegan) like, if the journalist was subsequentially shot by the security services before they could whip out their 'get out of jail card'
Perhaps I missed the point, did the reporter actually get on a flight??
I would love it, (Kevin Keegan) like, if the journalist was subsequentially shot by the security services before they could whip out their 'get out of jail card'
Perhaps I missed the point, did the reporter actually get on a flight??
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I do hope they don't go silly with the security now. I love operating from Italy because of the Italian attitude to life. I would much rather operate from FCO than anywhere in Britain.
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FCO is the only airport I've been to* that requires you to pass through the security arches on arrival. Presumably this is to prevent you smuggling a bomb (or, heaven forfend, 150ml of shampoo) off the aircraft and into Rome.
* I expect someone will be along in a minute to tell me this is common practice at XYZ ...
* I expect someone will be along in a minute to tell me this is common practice at XYZ ...
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FCO is the only airport I've been to* that requires you to pass through the security arches on arrival.
I thought they had put it only on connecting passengers arriving from outside Schengen (which is normal as it is the same story on all European airports).
I will try it the next time I get there from London with a can of Coke.....
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I do hope they don't go silly with the security now. I love operating from Italy because of the Italian attitude to life. I would much rather operate from FCO than anywhere in Britain.
Now if we could just cross the Italian security system with the jumped up little
at Manchester that are, according to two separate ground staff at MAN, deliberately picking on crew and are now using extortion to supposedly "raise" money for charity, then we might end up with something half sensible!
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