Radical Islamic French Baggage Handlers
Charles Johnson
Sat Oct 21, 2006 at 8:47 am PDT • Views: 363
Remind me never to fly into Charles de Gaulle airport: Paris airport bars staff on terror fears.
PARIS, France (AP) — Authorities have rescinded the security clearance of 43 baggage handlers at France’s main international airport due to suspicions they were connected with radical organizations, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said Saturday.
Responding to reports a day earlier that several dozen baggage handlers at Charles de Gaulle airport had lost security clearance, Sarkozy put the number at 43 and said authorities had clear reasons to deny them security badges.
“There were specific elements that made us forbid them entry” to sensitive areas at Paris’ largest airport, Sarkozy said.
“I cannot accept that people with radical practices” work in an airport, the minister said, adding that it was his “duty to ensure that (workers) do not have any kind of links with radical organizations.”
He did not elaborate on what specific information authorities had received about the 43 workers. Some of the employees concerned are known to be Muslims.
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