Bomb alerts in schools, technical meeting today at Palazzo Chigi

New technical table, today, Friday 13 November, at Palazzo Chigi, after the bomb scares that have targeted Italian schools in recent days. The objective is to "provide a basis of procedures and tools, aimed at intervention measures in the short, medium and long term". Meanwhile, after those of November 11th, yesterday too there were other alarms in Italian schools: over 3 thousand schools received the same message, via email, as two days ago. The signature is always Mikhail Andropov. And, again yesterday, the technical committee on the protocol for alarm management met. The objective of the meeting - with ministers Valditara and Piantedosi and undersecretary Mantovano - was to "prevent unfounded threats from blocking essential services". "The indications given by the government to prefects and school managers have worked", then stated a note from Palazzo Chigi.

School bomb alerts and interventions

On November 12, after the new alarm, only 77 schools were evacuated (of these, 36 resumed teaching shortly after). In all the others, however, the students remained in class. An indication contained in a government communication sent mid-morning to garrisons and prefects in which they were invited not to evacuate "in the absence of concrete elements further than the simple receipt of massive emails that suggest a danger exists". The line was then confirmed in the afternoon during the technical level meeting of the Committee for the Security of the Republic, with the heads of intelligence and the Cybersecurity Agency. All operational indications will be provided promptly by the Minister of the Interior to the Prefectures. And yesterday, for an update on the topic, Prime Minister Meloni also met with the opposition.

Attention remains high and investigations are ongoing

Attention, in any case, remains high and already this morning a restricted technical table was convened. The focus is not only on schools but on all potential targets: from hospitals to transport, from telecommunications to local authorities. Useful elements will be provided to quickly recognize unfounded threats and to define a sort of specific behavior protocols. "For each sector - says Palazzo Chigi - the competent central administrations will indicate the useful elements to quickly recognize unfounded threats and to define criteria, procedures and chains of command". Meanwhile, the prosecutors are moving to trace who is behind the Antropov signature. The anti-terrorism prosecutors of the Rome Prosecutor's Office have opened a case for causing alarm and aggravated threats. While Milan magistrates are investigating unknown persons for causing alarm and public intimidation.

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