Aviation: innocent passenger arrested with explosives planted by police.
It's the stuff of legend: a passenger arrived in Dublin from Slovakia with explosives in his backpack and took his bag home unchallenged. Then his flat was raided by anti-terrorist police and the army, and he was arrested under anti-terrorist laws. The only thing was, the explosives had been planted as a security check - and it failed.
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Slovakian security forces planted the explosives and a sniffer dog found them, say Slovak police. But "a single policeman forgot to remove them after the dog found them," said a spokesman for the Slovakian border police.
The Slovakians say that the mess was not all their fault: the Irish failed to spot them, the spokesman said.
In Dublin, parts of central Dublin were evacuated and sealed during the raid.
The man was released without charge and, presumably, an apology but so far no one is admitting to that.
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