Italy Hit by Second Day of School Bomb Threats as Meloni Summons Opposition
The government said schools should stay open unless there is credible evidence of danger after 6,300 institutions received hoax bomb 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 Italian government wants to prevent further evacuations in the face of massive bomb threats against schools.
More than 6,000 Italian schools evacuated after coordinated bomb threats, but no explosives were found
More than 6,000 Italian state schools received bomb threats, prompting nationwide evacuations and security sweeps. No explosives were found, while authorities investigate possible links to wider European disruptions.
The day after a wave of emailed bomb threats led schools in several European countries to close, Italy closed only around 2% of schools, with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni saying a second wave of bomb threats was not 'concrete.'
(Roma=Yonhap News) Correspondent Min-kyung-rak = Anxiety continues as emails threatening explosives were sent to Italian public schools for the second day.
Schools followed the government's new guidelines for handling security threats.
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