Borgen: incident in Baku airport will not prevent making the film "Prisoner in Azerbaijan"

Copies of all the materials filmed in Azerbaijan and confiscated at the Baku airport, are in Oslo, said Norwegian film director Erling Borgen.

According to his version, he and his video operator Dag Inge Dahl were detained by airport securities, who claimed that their luggage was excessively heavy.

"After half-hour talks the securities insisted on weighing my hand luggage. I have no choice. However, my bag was placed on the running track for luggage. They told that it was done by mistake and that the bag will be sent directly to Norway as luggage," said Mr Borgen.

However, when he received his luggage in Norway, the journalist, according to his version, found out that all the materials that he filmed during his six days in Baku were deleted from the memory card of his video camera. Besides, the document of the European Court of Human Rights - the decision on the case of Azerbaijani journalist Einullah Fatullaev - disappeared from Borgen's bag.

"Those who did it don't know that they fooled themselves: all the copies of filmed materials are in Oslo; and the editing of the documentary "Prisoner in Azerbaijan" about Einullah Fatullaev will start very soon," the "Aysor.am" quotes Mr Borgen as saying.

"It's nobody's secret what regime is now ruling in Azerbaijan. I'm very serious on this fact of theft; therefore, I've addressed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway and the police. I admire the courageous Azerbaijani journalists," Mr Borgen has stated.

In his turn, Magerram Safarli, head of the press service of the Concern "Azerbaijani Airlines" (AZAL), said that he had no detailed information about the incident. According to his version, the journalist was, probably, detained during the luggage X-ray check, as reported by the "Azadlyg".