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At least 300 Italian schools evacuated after email bomb alerts
Italian officials said 312 schools were evacuated after identical email threats, while police found no evidence of a concrete danger.
- 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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Schools in Italy, U.K. and Ireland get hoax bomb threats amid concern over hybrid warfare targeting Europe
Less than a week after more than 20 European fights got fake bomb threats, hundreds of schools in Italy, the U.K. and Ireland were hit by similar hoaxes.
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Twelve educational institutions in the Italian capital alone have received threats.
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Bomb threats have affected European air traffic in recent days. Now, the anonymous letters meet hundreds of schools in Italy, Northern Ireland and Scotland. While politics is taking steps in Rome, Edinburgh is taking a different path.
In Italy, more than 300 schools were evacuated.
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