Daily Memo: Bomb Threats in Italy, Summit in Dublin
Police found no explosives after thousands of schools evacuated for emailed threats that officials say were likely a hoax meant to cause chaos.
- On Thursday, hundreds of schools across Italy received bomb threats, a day after some 6,300 schools faced similar threats; authorities found no explosives and labeled the incidents as hoaxes.
- The threatening emails were signed by Mikhail Andropov, a self-styled leader of the Wiliyat of Misogistan, a title combining an Arabic term for province with a made-up place name offering few clues about its origins.
- In Vicenza, where the Army's presence south of the Alps is headquartered, nearly 100,000 students were removed from off-base schools; similar disruptions affected schools near Navy bases in Naples and Sicily and the Air Force's Aviano Air Base.
- Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni responded by stating the perpetrators "wanted a nation at a standstill" and one that is scared, declaring citizens "will find a nation that wakes up tomorrow, takes its children to school and goes to work."
- Western officials have blamed Russia and Iran for broader campaigns of hybrid warfare across Europe, which included recent threats targeting flights, airports, and media organizations including RTE last week.
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New emails with bomb threats signed by 'Mikhail Andropov' were sent today to 1,803 schools in Italy, media reports.
Daily Memo: Bomb Threats in Italy, Summit in Dublin
Chaos in Italy. Hundreds of schools across Italy received bomb threats on Thursday, a day after some 6,300 schools received similar threats. The email messages were signed from a certain Mikhail Andropov. Some schools evacuated students and staff, but police found no explosives or credible danger. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni met with opposition leaders to […]
The current bomb alarms represent a new form of digital terrorism that exploits network and artificial intelligence to create chaos and destabilize Europe, behind which interests or secret services of foreign countries could be hidden.L'articolo Maurizio Belpietro: "What is behind the bomb alarms" proviene da La Verità.
The new wave of e-mails with bomb threats that has caused this Wednesday the evacuation of hundreds of educational centers throughout Italy comes from a...
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