Italy .. Evacuation of 300 Schools After Receiving Bomb Threats

Al-Taj News – Italian authorities evacuated, on Wednesday, at least 300 schools across various parts of the country, following the receipt of emails containing bomb threats, according to what the Italian Minister of Education announced.

Minister of Education Giuseppe Valditara said, in press statements, that initial estimates indicate the threats are false (hoaxes), suggesting a likely increase in the number of schools that received these messages, pointing out that the broad scope of the warnings reduces their credibility.

In the capital, Rome, one school informed students’ parents, via a messaging application, of the decision to evacuate all students and move them to a safe place, where they were placed under the supervision of the teaching staff, within the framework of precautionary measures.

According to a copy of the circulated message, the email bore the signature of a person named “Mikhail Andropov,” who introduced himself as the leader of the “Vilayat of Misoginistan” (“State of Misogynistan”).

The same name had previously appeared in similar threatening messages sent last Friday to newsrooms in Ireland and Bulgaria, whose sender claimed responsibility for those threats.