FRANCE is still looking for a "lost" bar of plastic explosives stashed by police inside the suitcase of an unsuspecting passenger during a bungled sniffer dog training exercise at the main Paris airport a week ago.
"Is that it over there, Jean-Pierre?"
"Nope. Sorry, Jean-Claude."
"I'll keep looking." |
"We haven't found it," Interior Minister Dominique de Villepin told RMC radio today.
| Have you looked under the bed? |
150g of explosives were stuffed inside a case on the luggage conveyor belt at Charles de Gaulle airport. Two police dog handlers who lost sight of the suitcase have been suspended on serious professional misconduct charges.
"Vouse guys are fired!"
"What'll we do now, Jean-Pierre?"
"I guess I'll go back to apache dancing, Jean-Claude." |
Police contacted around 100 airlines who had flights from the airport last Friday, but so far no passenger has come forward with the missing explosives.
| "Hello? Lufthansa? This is the French police. Have you seen any explosives on one of your planes?" |
The authorities say the explosives, which were not attached to a detonator, are enough to destroy a shop front or badly damage a car. |