Airport Borg El Arab
At the airport of the Egyptian city of Alexandria, detained the citizen of Russia who attempted to smuggle in Luggage explosives. On Thursday, March 2, according to the Egyptian Independent, citing a source at the airport Borg El Arab.
The man allegedly tried to get on Board of Turkish Airlines, which was supposed to fly to Istanbul.
Egyptian Independent notes that employees of the security service of the air Harbor in the inspection notice in the Luggage of a Russian suspicious object. The place was called the bomb squad, who identified it as an improvised explosive device. In fact the incident initiated the investigation, which will deal with prosecutors.
Meanwhile, TASS claims that the information about the explosives in the Luggage of a Russian was not confirmed. A source at the airport told the news Agency that the man was suspected of trying to smuggle an explosive device due to the presence in the suitcase of wires and chips and cans of soda.
Flights between Russia and Egypt was discontinued in the fall of 2015 after the Sinai Peninsula crashed the plane of airline “Kogalymavia”. On Board were 224 people (most of them Russians), and they all died. The cause of the crash was a terrorist attack.
After that, Moscow has demanded to strengthen security measures at airports Arab Republic. In 2016, experts from Russia visited several times in Egypt to check the local airports. In January 2017, the information appeared about a possible resumption of flights to Egypt at the end of winter, but it never happened. On 27 February the head of the Russian Ministry of transport Maxim Sokolov has admitted that the Protocol on aviation security with Egypt will be signed in March.