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European flight threats extend to media offices, with no suspects identified

A German report details aircraft searches and a fighter-jet escort, while separating suspicions of hybrid warfare from evidence of who is responsible.

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Drohungen gegen Flüge: Was bekannt ist

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0:22Rasem reports mobile X-ray searches of aircraft in Prague, with nothing found; the footage is labeled archive material.
0:52Threats also affect Schiphol and a Ryanair aircraft in Lisbon that returns before takeoff.
1:30Flights to Sofia from London and Brussels face threats; at least one aircraft receives a fighter-jet escort.
2:05The report names Irish media organizations and Sky in London among the other targets.
2:33Rasem raises hybrid warfare as a possible explanation, followed by Albares's argument that actors seek to weaken Europe.
3:49Rasem concludes that no concrete suspects have been identified.

Mobile X-ray equipment in Prague and fighter jets escorting an aircraft to Sofia illustrate the disruption caused by a series of bomb threats across Europe. But the threats have also reached newsrooms, and their source remains unidentified.

Germany's ARD news service, tagesschau, brings those incidents together in its November 6 report, "Drohungen gegen Flüge: Was bekannt ist" ("Threats against flights: What is known"). It reports at least 30 threats against aircraft since Tuesday, with further incidents reported on Friday.

In the studio, journalist Bernd Rasem describes aircraft being searched on the ground at Prague's Václav Havel Airport using mobile X-ray machines. Nothing was found, he says. The accompanying Prague footage is labeled as archive material.

Rasem also reports threats involving Schiphol, the airport serving Amsterdam, and a Ryanair aircraft in Lisbon that had to return before takeoff. That aircraft was searched without anything being found, according to his account. In Sofia, threats concerned flights arriving from London and Brussels; at least one aircraft was escorted by fighter jets.

The report then turns to threats against Irish media organizations, including public broadcaster RTÉ, the Irish Independent and Newstalk, as well as the British broadcaster Sky in London. Its description characterizes the Irish threats as nearly identical to those affecting aviation.

Who is behind them is a separate, unresolved question. Rasem raises the possibility of hybrid warfare aimed at Europe. An excerpt from a Spanish television interview features Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares arguing that some international actors seek to weaken Europe. Neither passage identifies a perpetrator or establishes responsibility.

Rasem closes with the central limit on that interpretation: there are still no concrete suspects.