Munich’s airport closed for the second consecutive night on Friday, October 4 after a new alert of unmanned planes, Berlin denounces the “threat” that these security in the country represent.
This type of incident is multiplied in Europe, EU members suspect that Russia is at the origin of these descriptions of sensitive sites.
After a first incident the previous night, the Bavarian airport said that “it avoided until the additional notice” its air operations from 9:30 pm (7:30 pm GMT) “preventively suspended” due to observations of unconfirmed drones.
If the presence of drones at the beginning of the night has not yet been formally witnessed at this stage, “two simultaneous identifications of drones by police patrols took place shortly before 11 PM (9 PM GMT) around the north and south tracks,” said a spokesman for the AFP police.
6,500 assigned passengers
Twenty -three flights that had to land in Munich were confused and twelve canceled, and 46 flights from the Bavarian airport were canceled or postponed, affecting 6,500 passengers in total, said the airport, he said with the hope of a resumption of traffic at 5 am on Saturday (3 hours GMT).
Camp and food beds were offered to passengers forced to spend the night, he added.
The second German airport, Munich’s airport is the most important EU that is forced to suspend its operations, after similar incidents in Copenhagen and Oslo in particular.
His first closure on Thursday to Friday led to the cancellation of more than 30 flights, with almost 3,000 passengers blocked and supported by the site. Traffic had resumed at dawn on Friday before this new interruption at night.
“You have to shoot drones instead of waiting”
Germany celebrated its national vacations on Friday, which commemorates the integration of the Democratic Republic of Germany, born in the Soviet era in the Federal Republic in 1990.
Several devices had been formally identified on Thursday night in Erding, where the army has an airfield near Munich, then above the Civil Airport of the Bavarian capital.
Police had deployed helicopters without being able to quantify precisely, give the type or intercept these devices.
German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt denounced the “threat” for the Bild newspaper on Friday. “From now on, you have to shoot drones instead of waiting,” he said.
The Friedrich Merz Chancellor Government is due at the end of the review of air security laws on Wednesday. So far only the police, not the army, has the right to shoot drones.
Russia denies any participation
Other European airports, in Denmark, Norway and Poland, recently suspended flights due to the presence of unidentified drones.
Several countries, including Romania, which has also undergone an intrusion, as well as Estonia, a border country in Russia where NATO intercepted three Russian combat planes last month, he told Moscow, who rejected the accusations.
At the beginning of September, Poland denounced the 19 drones incur in their airspace, also incriminating Russia.
In Denmark, the airport of the capital of Copenhagen had to be closed on 22, and other airports, as well as a military base in the country, the drones were overwhelmed in the 25th. The origin of the plane is still unknown, but the Danish authorities also carry Moscow.
These recent incidents highlighted the gaps in the NATO arsenal in front of this new threat. On Thursday, the 27 EU member states gathered in the Danish capital on this issue and talked about the establishment of a “wall” Anti -Didron.
Source: BFM TV
