Just got this in an email from an ex girlfriend of mine (she is Italian).
I heard about it in the evening news.
Apparently the man said he was a terrorist but the captain understood that he was not. The man said that he wanted a press conference organised for him. so the captain suggeted to land in Lyon and told the man that the press conference was going to be organised there as soon as they would have landed. But the man found the police waiting for him rather than the journalists.
apparently in the past the same man had already hijacked a eurostar to Milan and another plane flying to France. He must be an old acquaintance of the police or captains.....?!