At least 300 Italian schools evacuated after email bomb alerts
Authorities said the hoax emails prompted a nationwide security response as police investigated the source of threats sent to more than 300 schools.
- 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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Authorities have evacuated students and staff from the affected schools, and law enforcement is currently conducting security checks.
The bomb threat email reached 312 schools from different points of Italy. Message was identical to the other left to more than 270 educational institutions at the beginning of the month. Giorgio Meloni says that the government is following the situation and guarantees there are no indications of credible threat
The messages also referred to the assassination of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
Hundreds of schools were evacuated all over Italy on Wednesday following a series of false bomb alerts, according to local media, the Italian Prime Minister saying that at this stage no "concrete danger" had been identified.
At least 300 schools in Italy have been evacuated after receiving bomb threats via email. Students, teachers and staff have been evacuated from the buildings while police, carabinieri, sapper teams and cyber police carry out checks. The messages were sent to schools in various parts of the country. The email claimed that a powerful, remotely detonated explosive device had been placed in the buildings. The text also contained threats against Ital…
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