At least 300 Italian schools evacuated after email bomb alerts
Italian authorities said the emails were hoaxes, while police in Scotland and Northern Ireland also treated similar threats as not credible.
- 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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Italian authorities evacuated around 300 schools across the country today due to bomb threats, the latest in a series of cyber incidents in recent weeks.
The alert was released early in the morning, when about 300 schools across the country received bomb warnings.
Authorities have evacuated students and staff from the affected schools, and law enforcement is currently conducting security checks.
Al Arabiya
Hoax bomb alerts sent to schools in Italy, UK and Ireland in latest disruption
More than 300 schools in Italy were evacuated on Wednesday after hoax bomb alerts in several European nations, the latest in a series of threats and
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
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