Time to examine the fallout of Mondays disaterous incident at Moscow Domodedovo (DME) Airport.
What has emerged is that the leadership wants to tighten security and have it’s pound of flesh over the incident.
Proposals have been made to introduce an Israeli-style airport security system Dmitry Medvedev has said, whilst blaming airport officials for security breaches – with a call for sackings if negligence can be proved.
The bomb itself was a 7kg TNT device, killing killing 35 people and injuring 110, which was detonated in the international arrivals hall of the airport.
He blamed airport officials for “clear security breaches”, and called for sackings if negligence was proved.
Mr Medvedev accuses the airport of letting “pure anarchy reign” Quoting:.
“People were allowed to walk in from anywhere. The entrance restrictions were partial at best.”
An investigation by the prosecutor general will be started would establish whether transport officials were guilty of criminal negligence.
The Airport authorities firmly denied any culpability and state they meet all requirements of air transport security.
DME itself is open, but security has been tightened. SVO (Sheremetyevo) is following suit with tightening security.
