Italy Hit by Second Day of School Bomb Threats as Meloni Summons Opposition
- 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 Meloni government has announced new data on the management of threats to place explosive devices in schools in Italy. The country's Interior Ministry has issued a circular setting out the protocol that the competent authorities will follow in the event of new alarms. According to the new instructions, when the same threatening email message is sent en masse to a large number of recipients, the threat will not be assessed as credible, unless …
The Italian government wants to prevent further evacuations in the face of massive bomb threats against schools.
In Italy, 3,778 schools received e-mails of mine threats, informed the Council of Ministers of Italy, and threats were sent throughout the country, which resulted in 77 schools being evacuated and handed over to TASS. Thirty-six of them later resumed classes. The Italian Council of Ministers met with an inter-ministerial committee on security. It was decided to establish a closed technical committee that would develop procedures for the rapid de…
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