French police 'lose' explosives at Marseille Airport

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By Gavin van Marle

02/07/2014

And here’s empirical evidence undermining the case for sniffer dogs scanning air cargo: French gendarmes hid 100g of C-4 explosive in the Marseilles’ cargo terminal for sniffer dogs to find. And after they failed, the police themselves forgot where they had placed it.

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