A 30-year-old Albanian man
arrested at Catania airport with false identity documents moved
through security with a boarding pass for a flight to Bucharest
but was carrying an airline ticket for London, police said
Thursday.
Suspicions were raised when police found photos of the man
holding a Kalashnikov automatic rifle stored on a pen drive
after searching his bags.
They also found files with documents of various
nationalities, including Italian.
This was his second brush this month with airport security
officials - police said the man had already been reported to
prosecutors after trying to board a flight to London from
Milan's Malpensa airport with fake documents on January 13.
On Thursday, after passing through airport controls, the
man did not head to the Bucharest flight gate but instead went
to the gate for the London flight with a ticket he bought on the
Internet.
He also had a online boarding pass for London.
Investigators are now pouring over his pen drive and the
false identity documents.
Italian police have reinforced border checks in the wake
of this month's Islamist terror attacks in France.
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