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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I am not going to repeat my questions, which have already been put to the Commission and are, in fact, quite similar to those asked by other Members. I shall also avoid repeating the threat that I made in committee of demonstrating in this Chamber the dangerous – albeit non-lethal – potential of mixtures that are easily made from materials to be found in duty-free shops or from other substances not subject to the restrictions that we are debating. Any ill-intentioned person could certainly use materials that can be found on board an aircraft or in any case acquired after boarding control.
On my frequent trips through airports, I have been saddened and, at the same time, amused to see full containers and harmless items being taken from passengers – mothers and babies not yet able to talk, elderly people perhaps having their first fraught experience of travelling, and other absent-minded travellers who, armed only with common sense but uninformed about the EU’s useless preventive measures, end up being deprived and disarmed of their shaving cream and shampoo, their lethal nail scissors, nail files and penknives, their drinks and whatever else they may have purchased from the duty free shops.
These controls are, of course, for the sake of everyone’s safety, but to what extent are they really keeping us safe and are not just silly, tiresome annoyances for passengers and additional burdens for both travellers and airport managers?
Lastly, since I do not know of any studies or research that have been carried out on the actual dangers posed by the banned articles or particularly on the statistical frequency of cases where these products have been used for criminal purposes, I wonder whether any studies or research might even have been kept secret, like the annex to the Commission regulation. How many hijackers have used nail files to carry out their crimes? How many have sprayed shaving cream over on-board equipment or held passengers and crew hostage with it? How many have been caught carrying chilled and cushioned cartons to keep their nitroglycerine stable? That would give me and the citizens of Europe a real sense of the need for the measures in question and of the secrecy now surrounding this enigmatic business."@en1
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