The situation is being monitored, a statement from French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu’s office said.
An airliner heading from Dublin to Rome was on Thursday rerouted to France, where it was escorted by military aircraft after a suspected bomb threat, French authorities said.
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The situation is being monitored, a statement from French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu’s office said.
France's air force said it had dispatched planes "as soon as the threat was reported".
"The aircraft has been diverted and is being escorted to the Evreux airfield" west of Paris, it added.
Flight tracking websites say the diverted aircraft belongs to Ireland's flag carrier, Aer Lingus.
The incident came after some 10 European flights were targeted by bomb threats on Tuesday, forcing the brief closure of a Warsaw airport and the scrambling of air force planes in Rome, according to authorities.
The UK government called those incidents "malicious hoax threats".
This is a developing story and our journalists are working on further updates.