Following the massive alarm on Wednesday, when thousands of schools in Italy received threatening emails about bomb attacks, the threats were repeated this Thursday as well, including educational institutions in several regions of the country.
According to the Italian news agency ANSA, new threatening messages have been reported in Turin, Palermo, Liguria, Veneto, Molise, Sicily and the province of Perugia. In some schools, the evacuation of students and staff was ordered, while in other institutions checks were carried out by the authorities. In Perugia, despite the receipt of the messages, schools were not evacuated.
One day earlier, on November 11, around 6,300 schools in Italy had received emails with threats of bomb placement. Hundreds of institutions were evacuated for security checks, while the authorities described the alarms as false and found no concrete danger.
The new messages appear to bear the same signature, that of a person who presents himself as Mikhail Andropov, a name that had also been used in the previous threats. The authorities are continuing their verification to identify the authors and determine the origin of the messages.
Despite the situation, schools across the country had reopened on Thursday according to their normal schedule, after the checks carried out a day earlier. However, the new wave of threats has forced some institutions to take precautionary measures again.