According to a report by Business Insider, a Vueling airline flight traveling from Paris to Cairo made an emergency landing after an Egyptian passenger wrote "I love God" on a medical form.
On the evening of Tuesday, November 7, at approximately 5:30 PM, a flight coming from Paris and headed to Cairo was forced to land at Rome Airport to remove an Egyptian passenger. French media reported that the flight crew became suspicious of a passenger who was acting strangely and incoherently, asking for medication and writing a phrase on the medicine form that raised concerns about a potential suicide bombing. This prompted the crew to make an immediate decision to divert the flight to the nearest airport, which was in Rome, to investigate the passenger.
The crew decided to land while flying over the island of Brač in Croatia and opted for Fiumicino Airport in the Italian capital, Rome. According to Italian media, snipers were deployed around the runway for fear that the passenger might undertake any terrorist action. Upon landing, authorities questioned him about the meaning of the phrase "I love God" he had written and whether he intended to commit a terrorist act.
The Italian authorities stated that the pilot requested to land without providing a reason, adding that the airline only mentioned the change of destination to Rome for safety reasons due to the abnormal behavior of a passenger, and that they followed the established procedures and requested security intervention without elaborating further.
Furthermore, Italian authorities confirmed that the presence of snipers was routine and not specifically related to this incident, adding that the Egyptian passenger was released without any legal action against him. It was revealed that the passenger was a 23-year-old named Mahmoud Ahmed Abdel Sattar Barham from the village of Asfour near the city of Belqas in the Dakahlia governorate in northern Egypt. He had traveled to Italy for work and subsequently went to France for the same purpose.
