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Media organisations in Ireland and UK also affected as apparently coordinated effort to cause chaos continues

A fresh wave of bomb threats has disrupted air traffic across Europe but the affected planes landed safely and searches revealed no explosive devices.

The latest alerts affected at least 18 flights to or from Bulgaria, Czechia, France, Italy, Hungary, Cyprus, Romania, the UK and Portugal. Danish police investigated a threat against Copenhagen airport but the airport said it was operating normally.

The warnings followed separate threats on Tuesday and Thursday that forced at least 35 flights to be diverted or searched, raising questions over an apparently coordinated effort to cause chaos for travellers.

  • Corporal_Punishment@feddit.ukEnglish
    29·
    3 days ago

    Because that one time they do ignore a bomb threat and your family are all massacred I’m sure you’d be a bit annoyed.

    The IRA used to warn the UK police about bombs some of the time, they even had codewords so the police knew it was legit.

    The warnings came when they wanted to make a statement but weren’t intending to hurt people.

    Although they killed and injured thousands over the years.

    The IRA are the reason why you won’t find litter bins in transit stations.

    • mjr@infosec.pubEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      The IRA are the reason why you won’t find litter bins in transit stations.

      No, there are bins at most train stations too small to have full-time cleaners you hand rubbish to, but they’re see-through so anything suspicious is seen and reported to “see it say it sorted”.

        • mjr@infosec.pubEnglish
          2·
          1 day ago

          There’s little difference. In one of the holders, it’s a bin.

          • Corporal_Punishment@feddit.ukEnglish
            1·
            1 day ago

            Being a clear plastic bag instead of a solid metal box with a smallish gap that lets you see the contents and helps prevent people hiding explosives is probably the biggest difference…

            Only on social media would someone be so entrenched that they’d seriously argue that a clear plastic bag and a solid box with a gap are the same thing

            • mjr@infosec.pubEnglish
              1·
              20 hours ago

              Only on social media would someone be so entrenched as to insist there’s only one valid design of litter bin!

    • NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      3 days ago

      This may be one of those cases where the cure can become as harmful as the disease, but to do anything about it would mean making really controversial grey-zone decisions about where the line is drawn. Which nobody wants to make, so the cure can get administered long past the point where it does more harm than good.

      • Corporal_Punishment@feddit.ukEnglish
        71·
        3 days ago

        Did you just ignore the bit where I said on some occasions they weren’t intending to kill anyone which is why they warned the police ahead of time?