Bomb threats force multiple flights in Europe to make emergency landings

Breaking news this morning, bomb threats have forced about a dozen flights out of the sky across Europe. One of them, an Aer Lingus Airbus from Ireland to Italy, was diverted to a military base in western France. This is a video from earlier of that aircraft at that military base as officials search it. About a dozen other flights have been affected and there is now a claim of responsibility. Let's understand that with Megan Williams who's joining us from Rome. Megan, is this a group you've ever heard of? David, I've never heard of it. The Italian media are reporting that the letter from this group arrived this morning. The group is calling themselves the Combattenti dello Stato Maschile, an Italian name, roughly translated as the fighters of the male or the patriarchal state. The group announced that bombs had been planted in two flights from Helsinki and Dublin. Flying here to Rome, the Fiumicino, the main airport here, and that they were, these bombs would explode within 60 minutes, which did not happen. In the threat, they said, you are all accomplices in a criminal conspiracy. We want to annihilate you for this. And it made reference to, we, the fighters of the male state and the masculine state will leave our mark on history with our actions today. Your feminist regime will remember this forever. Forever and these were aimed at the two flights coming here to Rome again the the the flights did not one of them landed in Rome with a military escort safely and the other was intercepted by French French fighter jet and it landed safely just west of Paris. Megan, I'm just going to add on to what you're saying, because the reports that I'm seeing, likely the same ones you're seeing, suggest that that claim of responsibility was written in broken Italian. The suggestion is maybe translated by artificial intelligence. I suppose it could mean that the group that is claiming responsibility is not, in fact, the one that is responsible. We'll have to wait for an investigation on that. But what is clear today is a very significant disruption to air travel across the continent. It is, David. I mean, as you mentioned, there are at least 15 flights across Europe that have been affected, several coming here to Rome, Brussels, Bulgaria. A lot of these flights diverted, airports and airplanes searched. And these threats come several, two days after After similar threats, there were threats. Threats on Tuesday made against seven flights as well as a cruise ship. Again, no bombs found. So the suspicion is that this is chaos that has been sowed by Russia and Iran, ways of causing disruption and fear. Throughout Europe, but again, we don't know who is doing it. There's so far no evidence linking these threats to either of those countries. And no one's heard of this group that's taking credit for it, as you say, in broken Italian. I mean, you just don't know what any of this means with AI. I mean, it's quite easy to translate something correctly. So even that is odd. But it is. Causing havoc and it comes shortly after as well, all of that disruption with freezers in other European countries and Brussels and other places throughout Europe. Those cyber attacks, quite something, taking down the freezers and spoiling huge millions and millions and millions of euros worth of food. All right, Megan Williams in Rome, very much appreciate your hustle on this. Thank you.