Group ‘take responsibility’ for multiple bomb threats made to European flights

They said they were targeting the 'feminist regime'

The incidents have caused travel disruption in a number of airports across Europe, with more than 10 flights being affected by bomb threats.

Now, as per reports in Italy, the bomb threat was made by a group called 'Combattenti dello Stato maschile', literally translated as Fighters of the Male State.

The group claimed to be targeting the 'feminist regime' specifically for the flights heading to Rome.

The threat was sent as an email to the airports in Rome and has been confirmed by the BBC.

It read: "You are all complicit in a criminal conspiracy.

"We want to destroy you for this. Precisely for this reason, at this precise moment, explosive devices have been placed on the following flights: AY1761, Helsinki - Italy; EL402, Dublin - Italy.

"They are headed to your airport. We, fighters of the Male State, will leave a mark on history with our actions today.

"Your feminist regime will remember this forever. The explosion will occur in 60 minutes. Today your sky will be red." 

One of the affected flights was an Aer Lingus plane from Dublin to Rome having to divert to a French air base with a number of other flights also reporting bomb alerts.

An Aer Lingus A320. Image: Adobe Stock.

The aircraft started squawking 7700, the internationally recognised sign for an emergency, just south of Paris, before it turned back on itself and peformed a number of loops.

This was followed by reports of four flights to Prague in the Czech Republic calling in bomb threats while a number of flights to Bulgaria and Italy were also affected.

This caused disruption at a number of airports having to close or make special exceptions for landing aircraft.

The people behind these other threats remain unknown and it is not sure if they are connected.

This comes just days after a series of other bomb threats were called in across Europe on Tuesday.

At least four Ryanair flights were affected as well as flights of SAS Lot and Wizz Air.

List of flights reporting bomb threats:

• Aegean Thessaloniki to Milan,landed in Milan
• Ryanair Porto to Milan, landed in Milan
• Aer Lingus Dublin to Rome, diverted to Evreux airbase in France
• Finnair Helsinki to Rome, landed in Rome
• Jettime Helsinki to Vienna, landed in Vienna
• Wizz Air Milan to Bucharest, landed in Bucharest
• Wizz Air Milan to Warsaw, diverted to Vienna
• LOT Warsaw to Brussels, landed in Brussels
• Ryanair Copenhagen to Sofia, landed in Sofia
• Ryanair to Madrid to Sofia, landed in Sofia
• Ryanair London to Sofia, diverted to Plovdiv