Suspected bomb hoax threats force fresh evacuations of Italian schools

Image source, EPAImage caption, Bomb squads have searched many schools but no devices have been found.

• Published12 November 2026, 12:39 GMT.
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Nenhum risco à população por ameaças de bomba escolar falsas, diz ministro do governo. Publicado há 1 dia.

Polícia trata e-mail ameaçador enviado a mais de 300 escolas como 'hoax.

Schools across Italy have received bomb threats for the second day in a row, sparking fresh panic and evacuations.

Algumas 3. 778 escolas, de Milão no norte até a Sicília no sul, relataram ameaças semelhantes à que causou caos na quarta-feira - embora nenhum dispositivo explosivo tenha sido encontrado.

The government has advised schools that "in the absence of concrete evidence beyond the simple receipt of a mass email indicating a danger, buildings must not not be evacuated.

Unlike a day earlier, only 77 schools were evacuated on Thursday, authorities say.

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni says her government will come up with "sector-specific" advice to help those facing this kind of threat.

Escolas na Escócia e na Irlanda do Norte receberam ameaças na quarta‑feira, também. Não está claro se os incidentes estão conectados.

On Thursday morning, a bomb alert at a Calais rail station delayed international and national train services in northern France.

The latest incidents follow a series of bomb hoaxes last week against airports and airlines in a number of European countries.

Embora um número de ameaças tenha sido reivindicado por um grupo extremista misógino, ele posteriormente negou qualquer ligação com os avisos falsos.

Wednesday's email threat - sent to 6,300 out of a total of 7,476 Italian state schools - was said to be from a certain "Mikhail Andropov, leader of Vilayat di Misoginistan.

Alguns oficiais dizem que se originou em Taiwan.

A similar message sent to Italian schools on Thursday, again signed by Mikhail Andropov, is said to have been sent from the account of a teacher in the Philippines whose account is believed to have been hacked.

Muitos pais, no entanto, estão preocupados e têm exigido clareza e ação do governo.

La Repubblica newspaper reports that protests have been held against a decision by the headmaster of a secondary school in Rome who did not take any action, saying she had realised the threatening message to contain typos and therefore be "fake.

According to the newspaper, protesters want new national guidelines to be issued.