Having established after a couple of hours of apprehension that no "concrete dangers" emerged, Giorgia Meloni's first concern was to reassure children, families, teachers and school staff. And of the same tone is the video message with which she concluded a day in which, between a meeting on the arms package for Ukraine and one on the maneuver, the Prime Minister called a summit to take stock of the situation generated by the bomb scares in schools: "We do not intend to lower our guard because we will not allow an anonymous email to decide the school calendar of our children". And at 8.30 he will receive all the opposition leaders, invited to share the available information, and because "on the security of Italians, starting with the perceived one, there is no majority and there is no opposition, there is Italy".
From the centre-left, albeit with some requests that the prime minister report to Parliament, everyone accepted the proposal. Roberto Vannacci also did it - invited with an email at a later time, unlike the various Conte and Schlein contacted by Meloni - who however delegated the group leader of Futuro Nazionale Edoardo Ziello, since he was "engaged in the plenary of the European Parliament". The day at Palazzo Chigi opened with many officials rushing to pick up their children, like thousands of parents in Italy. In the email that created the panic, signed by 'Mikhail Andropov, leader of the Vilayat of Misoginistan', there was also a reference to a bomb planted "in the engine of your prime minister's car". But no particular alarm has emerged: it is a vehicle kept in barracks or similar structures, monitored 24 hours a day.
Meloni first of all wanted to send a reassuring message, explaining on social media that from the first checks "no element has emerged that suggests the existence of a concrete danger". Then, while waiting for the meeting with the deputy prime ministers, the relevant ministers, the heads of Intelligence and the National Cybersecurity Agency, in the early afternoon he received the Minister of Defense Guido Crosetto and the Minister of Economy Giancarlo Giorgetti. A confrontation preceded by 48 hours of tension in the government over the military aid package for Ukraine. The Prime Minister had assured that Giorgetti would sign the interministerial decree already presented to Copasir upon his return to Rome. And in this meeting the Northern League minister guaranteed that he will do so, after having examined the text. In any case, for the government the political problem remains with the League, ready to oppose a new decree to extend supplies to Kiev for 2027. So much so that in the majority there are already those who indicate in January, once the maneuver has been archived, a risk of termination for the government.
Then the bomb threat dossier ended up in the center of the table, framed in a scenario of previous threats also to airline flights and supermarkets. The meeting, explained Meloni, brought out three elements: "There is no element that indicates a concrete danger, these messages are not intended to strike but to scare", and "whoever writes them wants above all our fear, the days lost, the suspicion, the chaos". "The investigators and the judiciary are working together with their European colleagues on who is behind it. I won't make hypotheses, when there are certainties you will know them", Meloni pointed out, adding "with honesty" that other similar messages may arrive: "It will not be a sign that something has not worked, it will be proof that whoever sends them has nothing else and will find us ready". The government, he added, is "working to deploy all the tools we have to minimize the impact of these attacks. Each alarm will continue to be verified one by one." Meanwhile, in his video message he urged us not to give in to fears. "Whoever did this wanted a firm, fearful nation, they will find a nation that wakes up tomorrow, takes their children to school and goes to work, and this - he concluded - is the best and strongest response we have to give".
