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Some planes that were going to land in the capital are being diverted to other locations such as Liège, Charleroi or Bruges and to foreign airfields such as Paris.
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He Brussels-Zaventem airport closed completely this Tuesday due to the presence of three drones in the vicinity of the terminal shortly before eight in the afternoon, local time, according to the local newspaper The Latest News.
Some of the planes heading to Brussels’ main airport are being diverted to other Belgian locations such as Liege, Charleroi or Bruges and also to foreign airfields such as Paris or Frankfurt, as can be seen on the specialized website Flight Radar.
Other aircraft remain in the air in a waiting circuit, while from the Zaventem terminal they told that newspaper that they are “investigating the matter” and that At the moment there are no flights landing or taking off from Brussels-Zaventem.
In recent weeks there have been sightings several drones near sensitive infrastructurethe last ones last weekend near the base aérea militar de Kleine-Brogel, close to the border with the Netherlands.
The Belgian authorities are preparing a accelerated response plan to these incursions and, meanwhile, the Army has given orders to shoot down the devices if it can be done safely and “without causing collateral damage.”
He Belgian Defense Minister Theo Francken, noted in an interview on local television VTM that recent drone flights over Belgian military bases and airports They could be espionage attempts by Russia.
Although he admitted that the Belgian authorities at the moment “they do not have concrete information about the origin of the drones”the Defense Minister pointed out the possible responsibility of Moscow in line with other drone incursions into the airspace of the Baltic and Eastern European countries.
Incidents in other countries
This Tuesday’s incident add up to other similar ones in several European countries that have been classified by the respective Governments as acts of hybrid war.
And similar incident took place last Friday when the appearance of an unidentified drone forced air traffic to be temporarily interrupted in the Berlin airport.
In recent weeks there have been several sightings of large drones over the south of Brandenburgthe region surrounding Berlin, without the Police having been able to identify the pilots despite their efforts.
Last month the Munich airportin the south of the country and the second largest after Frankfurt, had to be closed for two consecutive nights by the drone sighting, which affected about 9,500 passengers whose flights had to be diverted or rescheduled.
In September, a series of similar incidents that have not been clarified but that the Danish Government has attributed to Russia forced the closure of a series of civil and military airports in various parts of Denmark and Norway.