(Comtex Community Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)BRUSSELS, Mar 27, 2006 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- A Belgian journalist armed with
a pistol and plastic explosives came within striking distance of
French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Angela
Merkel during last week's summit of European Union in Brussels.
The operation was filmed and was aired on Monday night in the
website of news magazine Telefacts.
The journalist of the local commercial broadcaster VTM managed
to get in the hotel of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French
President Jacques Chirac with a gun and a bomb.
The program says that she was able to enter the building with
an alarm pistol. Later, another journalist brought her ten bullets.
The next day the journalist managed to smuggle in the necessary
materials for a bomb "strong enough to blow up an entire floor", according to the program.
The journalist claims that nobody of the security personnel did
so much as ask her a question. She also got within a three meters
range of both heads of state with the alarm pistol.
The Brussels police, however, say that the journalist never
displayed suspicious behavior. The spokesperson added that the
journalist would have immediately been arrested if she had.
