The A320 airliner was redirected to the Évreux airbase in Normandy, the French prime minister’s office told journalists at BFMTV, adding that it was monitoring the situation in real time.
According to the Flight Radar tracking website, the diverted plane appeared to belong to the Aer Lingus fleet.
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.
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.
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No explosives were found, despite extensive searches on the ground after the planes all took off and landed safely in different European cities just several hours apart.
Two Ryanair flights to Rome-Fiumicino airport – one from Lisbon and one from Dublin – were among those targeted on Tuesday, according to Ansa news agency.
Anti-bomb procedures were put in place when both planes landed at 9:40am and 10.45am respectively. "Checks on passengers, luggage and the plane were all negative and the alert was lifted," Fiumicino airport’s manager said in a statement.
A Wizz Air flight from Bergamo, Italy, was also inspected after landing in the Bulgarian capital Sofia following an alert on Tuesday, a Bulgarian interior ministry spokesperson told AFP.
The incidents all come after fighter jets were scrambled on Monday when a Wizz Air flight from London's Luton airport to Sofia was diverted following a bomb threat and forced to make an emergency stop in Budapest.
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