Earlier, French authorities diverted four aircraft following bomb alerts received from the authorities, three of them bound for Orly Airport (near Paris), while the fourth was redirected to Bordeaux. All landed without incident, and specialized teams checked the aircraft for explosives; an investigation was opened to identify those behind the threatening messages.
During the same period, the alerts multiplied across Europe: incidents were also reported in Hungary, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Italy, Poland, Denmark, and Spain. In Romania, two planes were checked in Bucharest on Thursday without any explosive devices being found, while on Friday a TAROM flight received a similar threat but landed at its destination, the alert proving false; some messages were attributed to a Russian extremist movement, the “Fighters of the Male State,” but the connection with the threats was not confirmed.