Italy Hit by Second Day of School Bomb Threats as Meloni Summons Opposition
The government said schools should stay open unless police find concrete danger after 1,800 schools received new hoax emails.
- 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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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...
For the second day in a row, bomb threats have been sent to Italian schools. This involves over 1,800 schools throughout the country. The police have found no explosives. The Ministry of Education says that no evidence has been found that the schools are at risk. Schools are advised to resume classes. If a school believes there is a threat after all, they can submit additional evidence to local authorities for a new risk assessment. If necessa…
Several schools were evacuated to Italy on Thursday 12 November for the second consecutive day after false bomb alerts were received by e-mail. The Italian government considered that "in the absence of any additional concrete elements", it was not necessary to evacuate the buildings because of these massive e-mails. The details of Natalia Mendoza, correspondent France 24 in Rome.
In Italy, bomb threats have once again been sent to schools, which are said to affect some 1,600 facilities, and the government will only allow buildings to be cleared in the future if there is concrete evidence of a danger.
In Italy, more than 8,000 institutions received bomb threats via email in two days. Similar messages caused panic in British schools the day before.
More than 1,800 Italian schools received false bomb alerts on Thursday (12), but many decided to remain open, following new directions from Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's government on how to deal with this type of threat to safety. The Meloni government stated that public buildings should only be evacuated when there are concrete indications of danger, after a wave of false bomb alerts on Wednesday (11) causing the closure of schools throughou…
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