This story offers the strongest visual metaphor potential and broadest international relevance. The idea of a hostile armed drone smuggled inside the perimeter of a civilian airport — a Trojan horse of modern hybrid warfare — is visually powerful and universally legible. It captures the escalating tension of covert state sabotage against European infrastructure in a way that transcends any single nation's politics.

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