Italian authorities evacuated hundreds of schools on Wednesday (November 11, 2026) after an emailed bomb threat, the latest in a series of disruptions affecting European institutions following recent hoaxes aimed at airlines and broadcasters.
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Schools in Ireland, Scotland and Northern Ireland received similar threats, but no evacuations were reported.
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Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni said there was no indication of any “concrete danger” to schools and that the threats appeared aimed at “generating alarm and concern”.
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She said investigations were underway and that she had called a meeting of ministers for later Wednesday (November 11, 2026).
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The anonymous email also threatened Ms. Meloni, according to copies obtained by Italian media, including the LaPresse news agency.
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She did not address the personal threat in her statement, and her office had no immediate comment.
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The email purported to come from the leader of an otherwise unknown group with an anti-woman name and contained particularly violent threats.
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It was signed with the same Russian name used in last week's threats against European broadcasters.
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Authorities have not attributed the threats to any group or state, and no evidence has emerged linking the hoaxes to a government.
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Threats reported in other countries
Police in Northern Ireland said they were conducting “urgent inquiries” after a threatening email was sent to hundreds of schools.
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Police in Scotland said they were treating similar messages as hoaxes and were not requiring schools to evacuate.
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“Our assessment remains that they do not represent a credible threat,” Police Scotland said.
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Police in Ireland also said they were aware of a “generic communication” sent to several educational institutions.
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Rome students learn of threat after evacuation
Italian Education Minister Giuseppe Valditara told reporters that 312 schools had been evacuated after receiving email threats.
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“These are very delicate considerations, because there is always the risk that there is someone else behind the madman,” he said.
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“Given that so many schools are involved, the real risk is almost non-existent.”
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At Rome's Mamiani high school, students poured into the streets, mistaking the alarm for the recess bell.
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They learned of the bomb threat only after they were outside.
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“They are saying it was a bomb alert because an email arrived from Russian hackers in which they said they would have killed everyone.
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It was pretty violent,” said Anita Bartocci, an 18-year-old student.
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Hoax pattern emerges
Bomb threats targeted dozens of flights across Europe last week, following a string of hoaxes that forced flight diversions and left airlines scrambling to keep passengers safe and minimise disruption.
False bomb threats are relatively common, but so many in such a short period are unusual.
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No suspicious items were found and no one was injured.
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Still, the threats raised concerns because they followed other disruptions across Europe, including attacks on supermarket refrigeration systems and drone incursions.
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Defence Minister Guido Crosetto said the emailed threats were aimed at “sowing terror, or creating concern”.
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Any one of us can use the available means and instruments to send an email to a school, a daycare, an airline, saying that there's a bomb,” Mr. Crosetto told reporters at an event on Wednesday (November 11, 2026).
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Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said on Saturday (November 7, 2026) that his personal data had been leaked to the dark web, an encrypted part of the internet.
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Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni blamed pro-Russian hackers.
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The company overseeing construction of the Brenner Base Tunnel, which will connect Austria and Italy, also said over the weekend that it had been hacked last month.
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