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Ryanair tweet calls French team ‘cheating b**tards’

An angry tweet from the Ryanair Twitter account called the French team "cheating bastards".

Ryanair tweet calls French team 'cheating b**tards'
Photo: AFP

Whoever is in charge of Ryanair’s Twitter account (if they are still in charge) could not join in the celebrations on Thursday night when France beat Germany.

Just after France had been awarded a penalty for the handball against Bastian Schweinsteiger, Ryanair’s Twitter account fired out an angry reaction.

(AFP)

“Wait a minute, so they know what a handball is in France? #Neverforget. #CheatingBastards,” read the tweet.

The tweet was accompanied by a photo of the infamous handball by Thierry Henry which helped France qualify for the 2010 World Cup at the expense of Ryanair’s home country Ireland.

The tweet was quickly deleted and was followed by a tweet by the company advertising for a job as “Head of Social Media”.

It’s not clear whether it was a joke or the result of instant sacking.

Ryanair has hardly been the most supportive of the French team during Euro 2016, which appears to be motivated by the company’s longstanding frustration with the number of times French air traffic controllers go on strike.

On Thursday it tweeted out a message of support for Germany joking that with the number of goals they had scored, the Germans were “better strikers”.

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UPDATE: Ryanair passenger jet makes emergency landing in Berlin over ‘fake bomb threat’

Polish police said Monday they were investigating a fake bomb threat that forced a Ryanair passenger plane travelling from Dublin to Krakow to make an emergency landing in Berlin.

UPDATE: Ryanair passenger jet makes emergency landing in Berlin over 'fake bomb threat'
A Ryanair flight making an emergency landing

The flight from Dublin to Krakow made the unexpected diversion after a reported bomb threat, German newspaper Bild Zeitung said.

“We were notified by the Krakow airport that an airport employee received a phone call saying an explosive device had been planted on the plane,” said regional police spokesman, Sebastian Glen.

“German police checked and there was no device, no bomb threat at all. So we know this was a false alarm,” he told AFP on Monday.

“The perpetrator has not been detained, but we are doing everything possible to establish their identity,” Glen added, saying the person faces eight years in prison.

With 160 people on board, the flight arrived at the Berlin Brandenburg airport shortly after 8 pm Sunday, remaining on the tarmac into early Monday morning.

A Berlin police spokesperson said that officers had completed their security checks “without any danger being detected”.

“The passengers will resume their journey to Poland on board a spare aeroplane,” she told AFP, without giving more precise details for the alert.

The flight was emptied with the baggage also searched and checked with sniffer dogs, German media reported.

The passengers were not able to continue their journey until early Monday morning shortly before 4:00 am. The federal police had previously classified the situation as harmless. The Brandenburg police are now investigating the case.

Police said that officers had completed their security checks “without any danger being detected”.

“The Ryanair plane that made an emergency landed reported an air emergency and was therefore immediately given a landing permit at BER,” airport spokesman Jan-Peter Haack told Bild.

“The aircraft is currently in a safe position,” a spokeswoman for the police told the newspaper.

The incident comes a week after a Ryanair flight was forced to divert to Belarus, with a passenger — a dissident journalist — arrested on arrival.

And in July last year, another Ryanair plane from Dublin to Krakow was forced to make an emergency landing in London after a false bomb threat.

READ ALSO: Germany summons Belarus envoy over forced Ryanair landing

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