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Italy Hit by Second Day of School Bomb Threats as Meloni Summons Opposition
Police found no explosive devices as 1,803 schools received new threats after 6,300 institutions were warned a day earlier, 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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Schools followed the government's new guidelines for handling security threats.
·Helsinki, Finland
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SapoMeloni warns that the wave of threats is part of a strategy to sow chaos. Deputy Prime Minister accuses pro-Russian hackers
·Paço de Arcos, Portugal
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Thousands of schools hit by bomb threats, trains halted as panic sweeps Europe
Italy orders schools to remain open despite a second wave of mass bomb threats, while a security alert disrupts Eurostar trains in France; investigators seek the sender as officials examine possible hybrid warfare, with no evidence yet linking the incidents
·Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
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The former Minister of Education and Congresswoman M5s Lucia Azzolina and the bomb alarms in the schools: "Yesterday and today bomb threats have arrived by email. But we don't have...
·Rome, Italy
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