Bomb alert in dozens of schools in Italy from anonymous email

Bomb alert in dozens of Italian schools. The alarm was triggered by an anonymous email sent to schools in various cities. Students and staff of the schools affected have been evacuated and the police are carrying out clean-up operations. A similar episode had already occurred in recent days with an email message sent to 280 principals.

The message signed Mikhail Andropov

"I have just left a powerful explosive device with remote trigger in your building, inside a plastic bag", reads the message signed by Mikhail Andropov who defines himself as "leader of the Vilajat of Misoginistan" and threatens: "We have come to annihilate you. We will carry out a genocide against the Italians". The message reads: "I have been preparing for this for a long time: to kill each of you. I have just left a powerful remote-triggered explosive device in your building, inside a plastic bag. I have positioned it in such a way that the shock wave will spread throughout the building. Only bones and a bloody mess will remain of you." Furthermore, he continues, "we planted a bomb in the engine of your prime minister's car." After that "we will finish off the survivors with stabs."

Reports in various provinces

At the moment certain reports have been recorded, among other things, in the provinces of Milan, Trieste, Padua, Brescia, Rome, Modena, Frosinone, Potenza, Rieti, Lecce, Palermo and Syracuse. But other provinces are joining the list. In Syracuse the police headquarters is investigating to trace the origin of the message and identify those responsible. The suspicion, given the common nature of the report, is that the threat may be associated with a new cyber attack against Italian institutions. Already in recent days around 200 principals of schools of all levels had received a similar report.

Crosetto: "Strategy to create concerns"

Defense Minister Guido Crosetto intervened to say that the bomb scares are part of the "strategy of sowing and creating concerns". “The police forces work precisely to distinguish things that are serious from things that are the result of mythomaniacs, which will become more and more because unfortunately the mother of idiots is always pregnant,” he explained on the sidelines of an event, commenting on the facts.

Student network: "Government guarantees security"

"The government must intervene to guarantee safety in our country's schools". This was stated by Simone Montori, regional coordinator of the Middle School Students Network of Lazio. "It is inconceivable how a simple email could sow panic throughout the peninsula," he continues. The student union continues to monitor the situation in schools in the region and is relaunching the student strike on November 20th.