Follow-Up: Some 6,300 Italian Schools Get Bomb-Threat Emails, Over 300 Evacuated; Meloni Says No Concrete Danger
Schools across Italy received the same bomb-threat email on November 11, with about 6,300 schools receiving the warning and more than 300 evacuating their students. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said there was currently no indication of a concrete danger, that the government was following the reports very closely, and that police were investigating the source of the email.
Education Minister Giuseppe Valditara told Italian television that at least 300 schools had received the threats and that the number could rise. He said the episode looked like a cyberattack rather than a genuine risk, and that the content of the emails made any concrete risk virtually nonexistent. Schools evacuated on Wednesday included the Quirinio Visconti primary school in central Rome, where parents were called to collect their children.
A copy of the email seen by Reuters also contained a threat against Meloni herself and was signed “Mikhail Andropov, leader of the Vilayat of Misoginistan.” The same signature had appeared on threats sent to newsrooms in Ireland and Bulgaria, and no link between the cases has been established. Meloni said the incidents appeared aimed at generating alarm and concern and convened a meeting of ministers later in the day. Defense Minister Guido Crosetto has described the recent wave of disruption in Europe as part of a hybrid war.
Schools in Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland also received similar emails on Wednesday. Police in Northern Ireland, where more than 300 schools received the message, said it originated outside the United Kingdom, was being treated as a hoax and posed a low risk to the public. Police Scotland also treated the messages as hoaxes and did not advise evacuations, and Irish police assessed the threat as not credible.
The incident is the latest in a series of hoax bomb threats and cyber disruptions across Europe in recent weeks. Earlier waves targeted flights, television and radio organizations in several countries, and supermarket refrigeration systems in France, Sweden, Belgium and Ireland were hit by cyberattacks. The European Union said last week it was too early to tell whether the incidents were linked.
Source: Reuters
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