Haiti - Security : Luggage theft at the International Airport, the AAN denies the rumor
Tuesday in front of the media, the General Direction of the National Airport Authority the AAN has wanted to deny the information that there would be cases of theft of passenger baggage at the International Airport Toussaint Louverture, assimilating these false information to rumors to tarnish the image of the airport, saying it was almost impossible to steal luggage in the airport.
In order to demonstrate this "near impossibility", he invited the journalists to observe the embarkation and disembarkation of the luggage and to see for themselves the impossibility of stealing luggage on a journey of less than 100m, between the site of landing of the hold of the plane and the arrival of luggage in the reception room, all under the surveillance of several cameras and a police presence.
The Director of Security, Dimitri Bastien, said that the standards and procedures applied at Toussaint Louverture International Airport are the same as those used in the member countries of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and asserted that the institution had so far received no formal complaint from alleged victims of baggage theft.
People who are victims of theft at the airport must file a complaint with the officials of the airline who transported their luggage, explained Hervé Mouscardy, Manager of a tour operator. As for the officials of the AAN, while acknowledging in the past one or two cases of theft before security measures were reinforced, they suggest that these rumors could be fueled by baggage flights that take place outside the airport and not inside the airport.
