At least 300 Italian schools evacuated after email bomb alerts
- On Wednesday, November 11, 2026, hundreds of schools across Italy, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Ireland were evacuated after receiving identical bomb threat emails signed 'Mikhail Andropov, leader of the Vilayat of Misoginistan.'
- The purported author claimed responsibility for email bomb threats sent on Friday to newsrooms in Ireland and Bulgaria, establishing a pattern of hoax campaigns targeting institutions across Europe.
- Police Scotland, the Education Authority in Northern Ireland, and Irish police declared the messages 'not credible' hoaxes, yet many institutions evacuated students as a precaution, leaving pupils waiting outside in cold conditions.
- Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni stated there is no 'concrete danger,' while Defence Minister Guido Crosetto said he will brief parliament on security implications and the alerts' connection to broader destabilization efforts.
- Rising European concerns about 'hybrid' warfare reveal the broader context, with recent weeks seeing similar hoax threats target supermarkets and airlines, exploiting digital infrastructure to sow widespread fear across public services.
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In several European countries there have been e-mails with bomb threats against schools.
Sydney Morning Herald
Schools in Europe hit by cyberattacks
Thousands of schools in Italy, Scotland and Northern Ireland have received threatening emails, believed to be bomb threats.
The signature of the e-mails that forced the evacuation of more than 300 Italian schools evokes "Male State", the Russian misogynist movement outlawed in 2021.
Bomb threats force evacuation of schools across Italy
Schools across Italy were evacuated on Wednesday following a series of bomb threats, which Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni described as hoaxes, insisting that there was no concrete danger. The threats, which reportedly affected about 6,000 schools, according to Italian news agency Ansa, citing the Education Ministry, also prompted security concerns in Britain and Ireland, where […]
The Italian government says nearly 6,300 schools across the country have received bomb threats. Schools in Scotland, Ireland and Northern Ireland have also received threatening letters.
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