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While dozens of commercial flights have been targeted by bomb alerts in Europe since the beginning of the week, the Paris Public Prosecutor's Office has opened an investigation, he said on Saturday. The purpose of the investigations is, in particular, to identify the authors of the e-mails at the origin of these false alerts and to determine whether they have any connection with "foreign powers".
A series of false bomb alerts shake Europe on Friday, after dozens of similar warnings this week, targeting commercial flights but also media and mobilising security forces.
The proliferation of false bomb alerts has created confusion throughout Europe. These incidents resemble new episodes of the hybrid war waged by some states such as Russia in Europe, but there is nothing to formally accuse Moscow. And then, there is this strange claim of the "male state fighters", a masculinist group that seems to be linked to an obscure Russian far-right network...
A series of false bomb alerts shake Europe on Friday, after dozens of similar warnings this week, targeting commercial flights but also media and mobilising security forces.
At least 15 European flights were subjected to bomb alerts on Thursday, 5 November, and several aircraft were escorted by fighter aircraft while two flights were stolen, according to authorities and airlines. European Transport Commissioner Apostolos Tzitzikostas said it was still "too early" to say whether bomb alerts disrupt European air traffic were linked. The explanations of Sylvain Rousseau, a great reporter in France 24.
