“We are facing an attempt at hybrid aggression and psychological warfare,” Spanish foreign minister José Manuel Albares said Friday about bomb alerts hitting European air traffic, according to Ziarul Financiar / Mediafax / Italian press.

“It cannot be a coincidence that so many identical episodes, with the same modus operandi, are happening across Europe,” he told TVE. Friday’s new wave followed Thursday, when dozens more flights received false threats — including routes to and from Bulgaria, Czechia, France, Italy, Hungary, Cyprus, Romania, the UK and Portugal. All planes landed safely.

General Vincenzo Camporini, a former Italian defence chief of staff, said the aim is destabilisation and that such situations “are viewed very favourably in Russia.” Cybersecurity expert Pierluigi Paganini told ANSA it looks like “Psyops” meant to sow fear and distrust in institutions.

The Financial Times received an unverified email claiming responsibility and threatening to blow up planes, cruise ships, metro stations and trains. In Ireland, false alerts also hit media outlets ahead of the 12–13 November EU summit in Dublin. The European Commission is treating the threats “very seriously”; Italian PM Giorgia Meloni said “civilian infrastructure is under attack today.”

In Romania, Thursday checks covered Wizz Air Milan–Bucharest and Air Serbia Belgrade–Bucharest. Friday’s alert targeted a TAROM Prague–Bucharest flight; the SRI said its anti-terror brigade found no explosives and the threats were not confirmed.

Source consulted: Bomb alerts in Europe and Romania: psychological warfare, Italian press says — Ziarul Financiar.

Image: European airport (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0).

Sources consulted: Bomb alerts in Europe and Romania: psychological warfare, Italian press says — Ziarul Financiar.