For the second night, the Munich Airport suspended its operation after drones. Flight cancellations and suffering for thousands of passengers. Infrastructure security concern. Reply from Berlin

For drones of drones of unknown origin that cannot yet be identified by Munich Airport officials after new drones over the two Bavarian International Airport airports on Friday night. “The drones were removed from the airport before they could be recognized,” a spokesman for the airport said.

For the second consecutive day, following the corresponding incident on Thursday, Munich Airport and on Friday night suspended its operation for several hours. As a result, many flights had to be canceled and others were diverted to Stuttgart or Nuremberg Airport.

About 6,000 passengers were forced to spend the night again at the airport in improvised beds. At present, the operation of the airport has been restored, but there are also problems on scheduled flights.

Earlier on Friday, according to German media, drone also unknown origin had been found over the Bundeswehr military base in Erding, northeast of Munich. This basis houses a center of drones development of the German Armed Forces. With no further details, the German army confirmed the incident.

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Bavaria’s interior minister, Joach Hermann (CSU), calls for the state to give the state to reject drones in the event of a “serious danger”, and the North Rhine-Westphalia interior ministry, Herbert Royle (CDU).

Bavarian Prime Minister and Christian Socialist (CSU) leader Marcus Zender says “this is not an individual incident”, referring to a “new security situation with which we are facing.

For his part, Germany’s Interior Ministry, Alexander Dobrid (CSU), believes that there is a serious security issue of critical infrastructure in Germany, such as German airports. As he announced, he will shortly present a bill on aviation security and a draft for the fight against drones in collaboration with the German Armed Forces, Federal Police and State Police.

Sources: DW, RND, WELT, DLF