At least 300 Italian schools evacuated after email bomb alerts
Authorities said the emails were treated as hoaxes, with police investigating the source after similar threats spread to schools in Britain and Ireland.
- 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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Schools in Italy, U.K. and Ireland get hoax bomb threats amid concern over hybrid warfare targeting Europe
Less than a week after more than 20 European fights got fake bomb threats, hundreds of schools in Italy, the U.K. and Ireland were hit by similar hoaxes.
Twelve educational institutions in the Italian capital alone have received threats.
Bomb threats have affected European air traffic in recent days. Now, the anonymous letters meet hundreds of schools in Italy, Northern Ireland and Scotland. While politics is taking steps in Rome, Edinburgh is taking a different path.
Some 312 establishments were evacuated on Wednesday to the peninsula. Giorgia Meloni refers to a "strategy aimed at sowing panic", without concrete danger identified at this stage Hundreds of schools were evacuated throughout Italy on Wednesday following a series of false bomb alerts, according to the local media, the Italian Prime Minister saying that at this stage no "concrete danger" had been identified.Giorgia Meloni announced that he had co…
On Wednesday, Italy, the United Kingdom and Ireland were the targets of these new threats, which have been increasing in recent times on the European continent.
Italy evacuates over 300 schools after bomb threats; similar alerts reported in UK, Ireland
In Scotland, police said they were treating the emails as hoaxes and that they did not represent a credible threat. Police in Northern Ireland said they were conducting urgent inquiries.
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