"We Have Come To Annihilate You": Bomb Threats Empty Hundreds Of Schools Across Europe

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"We Have Come To Annihilate You": Bomb Threats Empty Hundreds Of Schools Across Europe Hoax bomb threats emailed to thousands of schools forced evacuations across Italy on…

Hoax bomb threats emailed to thousands of schools forced evacuations across Italy on Wednesday, and the same kind of message landed in schools in Ireland, Scotland and Northern Ireland, a week after a wave of bomb threats diverted flights across Europe. Italy's Education Ministry said the email reached about 6,000 schools, and at least 300 were evacuated, ANSA reported.

"We have come to annihilate you. We will carry out a genocide against the Italians" (translated), the email read, according to Il Sole 24 Ore. It claimed a "powerful device" (translated) had been left in a plastic bag "with a remote detonator" (translated), and another line claimed a bomb had been planted in the engine of the prime minister's car. It was signed "Mikhail Antropov, leader of the Vilayat of Misoginistan" (translated), a name Italian reports also spell Andropov.

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni wrote on social media that "no element has emerged that would suggest a concrete danger" (translated), and said the alerts "seem attributable to a strategy" to generate alarm and concern (translated). She summoned ministers, the heads of the intelligence services and the National Cybersecurity Agency to Palazzo Chigi at 4 p.m., and invited opposition leaders for 9 a.m. Thursday.

Education Minister Giuseppe Valditara put the count of affected schools at 312 and said "the concrete risk is practically non-existent" (translated), adding that the sheer number of schools involved showed the threat's "low credibility" (translated). Defense Minister Guido Crosetto said the threats aimed "to spread fear and create anxiety," Reuters reported, while cautioning that the senders could be attention-seekers rather than a hostile state. Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi said it was "premature to speak of a common direction" (translated).

Prosecutors in Genoa have opened a case for causing alarm, interrupting a public service and serious threats, possibly aggravated by terrorist purpose, with the postal police and the…

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