The Paris Public Prosecutor's Office opened an inquiry into false bomb alerts targeting planes flying over French territory to investigate a possible link between the authors and foreign powers.
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07/11/2026
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O Paris Public Prosecutor opened an inquiry into false bomb alerts targeting planes flying over French territory, namely to investigate a possible link of the authors to “foreign powers,” he announced today.
Investigations are being “led to identify the authors of the emails that disclosed this false information, in order to make believe in dangerous destruction, as well as its possible connection to foreign powers,” the Public Prosecutor explained, contacted by AFP.
On Thursday, an Aer Lingus plane was diverted to Évreux following a bomb alert. Matignon had reported on Friday four new alerts issued on planes flying over French territory and on which the services carried out “safety inspections”. Three of these aircraft landed at Orly, the fourth in Bordeaux, all of them unincidented, according to a well-known source.
“ An investigation is under way to determine the origin of these alerts that affect the whole of Europe,” added, without further details, the services of Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu, responsible for security and air defense of the country.
Dozens of commercial flights have been bombed since the beginning of the week in Europe. The planes had to be diverted, escorted by fighters, evacuated or searched. In every case, no bombs found.
Also the Portuguese police received on Friday morning a bomb threat alert on a plane from Ryanair that would leave Lisbon airport to Rome.
Irish, British, Sky News, or French media like TF1, also received bomb alerts.
The Irish Government denounced on Friday a ‘probable coordinated campaign to cause disturbances’.
This series of false warnings, difficult to attribute, has the consequence of mobilizing security services and sowing fear at a minimum cost, stress the experts.
The claims sent on Thursday to the airports of Rome and Sofia came from the “male state fighters”, seeming to refer to the name of a Russian ultranationalist movement, but its leader denied any involvement.
European leaders have been denouncing for months the increase in destabilisation operations conducted for the benefit of Russia or Iran, whether they are campaigns of misinformation, sabotage, cyber attacks, attacks, etc.
Information services have been anticipating the hardening of these campaigns for several weeks, notably by Russia, with the aim of putting pressure on European support for Ukraine.