Several Italian Schools Evacuated After More Bomb Warnings-Report
Prosecutors are investigating the emails as false alarms and serious threats after around 6,000 schools were targeted, officials said.
- On Wednesday, hoax bomb threats emailed to around 6,000 schools across Italy triggered widespread evacuations and police searches in Rome, Milan, Turin, Naples, Venice, and Trieste.
- Authorities traced Wednesday's initial mass email to a Taiwanese account, while a second wave of threats on Thursday originated from an account in the Philippines.
- Italy's government advised schools on Thursday that buildings should not be evacuated based solely on mass emails without concrete evidence; classes resumed despite isolated incidents like Palermo's Umberto I classical high school evacuation.
- Prosecutors are investigating the threats as public service disruptions and false alarms, while similar hoax alerts occurred in Britain, Ireland, and Scotland, leading to additional evacuations.
- These alerts mirror recent European cyber attacks on supermarket refrigeration systems, while Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani reported being targeted by "cyber criminals" sharing his personal data due to Italy's support for Ukraine.
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Once again, several schools in Italy have been evacuated after receiving a bomb threat via email. These involve similar messages to...
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The LocalNew bomb threats sent to Italian schools for a second day
Italy's government told schools on Thursday there was no need to evacuate over a mass email alone, a day after threats at around 6,000 schools caused chaos across the country.
The same dynamics of yesterday's events, which involved 6,000 institutions, repeated in the morning of today, with evacuations and control operations still underway. In the message the sender asks for the "immediate discharge" of Giorgia Meloni and announces that he has put an "explosive device" also at Palazzo Chigi
Bomb threats were sent to 6,300 schools on Wednesday. On Thursday, threats were sent again to Italian schools
The alerts have been registered on Thursday 12 November in Veneto, Liguria, Umbria, Lazio, Sicily and Lombardy. Messages are again signed by Mikhail Andropov Read
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