MOSCOW, December 22 (Sputnik) — Germany’s largest airport is retraining 2,500 of its employees after the European Union’s Transport Commission uncovered that every other attempt to smuggle dangerous substances trough the airport’s security controls was successful, the German Bild newspaper reported.
“A total of 2,500 people are currently being retrained so that suspicious objects can no longer get through the controls,” Frankfurt Airport spokesman Christopher Holschier was cited as saying by the newspaper on Sunday.
According to the EU report obtained by the newspaper, poorly trained personnel is the airport's main security problem, with many employees being seemingly unable to identify dangerous objects during hand baggage screenings.
The European Commission "threatens that Frankfurt Airport could be deprived of its EU status" if further flaws are uncovered, Bild reported.
"We take this very seriously,” Holschier told the newspaper.
Frankfurt Airport, home to Germany’s flag carrier Lufthansa, is one of the world’s busiest airports. In 2013, it handled some 58 million passengers.
