30.12.2010                     23.Tevet, 5771

Sicherheit:

Germany rejects Israeli-style airport security system

Incoming head of German Airports Association had called for Germany to focus security checks on high-risk passengers.

A call by an airline industry leader for Germany to focus security checks on high-risk passengers, as Israel does, was rejected Wednesday by senior officials in Berlin.
Christoph Blume, soon to take over as president of the German Airports Association, or ADV, had called for Germany to categorize passengers by ethnic origin, sex, age and marital status, so that people unlikely to be terrorists are not so closely checked….