Schools, new barrage of false bomb alertsSecond day of threatening emails in Piedmont

Second day of disruption for Piedmontese schools due to a new barrage of false bomb alerts. After the 463 reports recorded yesterday across the region - of which 190 in Turin alone - this morning several schools again received anonymous emails announcing the presence of bombs in the buildings. The messages are once again signed with the pseudonym "Mikhail Andropov". "The explosive device was made with care – we read in the text sent to schools throughout Italy – there are numerous metal fragments which, after detonation, will maim the survivors". The email also calls for the resignation of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni: "If you do not adopt adequate measures there will be hundreds of victims".

As already happened in the previous hours, the wave of messages proved to be unfounded, but still required the activation of security procedures and the intervention of law enforcement throughout the territory.

In Turin the anonymous emails reached several schools, including the Cavour high school, the Majorana, the Carolina Picchio comprehensive institute and the Salvemini: no evacuations were ordered in these schools, but the usual checks were carried out. In other institutions in the capital, a precautionary exit was instead opted for, such as in via Nizza, where several children found temporary shelter in the Sacred Heart church.

In the province of Turin, management has been differentiated. In Val di Susa the students of all the schools of the Condove-Sant'Ambrogio comprehensive school were sent out. In Venaria Reale, the Don Milani comprehensive school opted for an initial evacuation, while at the I comprehensive school, lessons continued regularly without interruptions. Finally, in the Canavese area, the emails arrived in the institutes of Agliè and Valperga, but in both cases the directors chose not to clear the classrooms.

In the Asti area there were at least nine institutes involved. In the capital the email reached the Goltieri and Brofferio middle schools and the Alfieri, Giobert, Artom, Quintino Sella and Castigliano high schools, but only the last two were evacuated. In the province of Asti, the messages affected the schools of Villafranca, Moncalvo and San Damiano, where students were let out as a precaution and then returned to class regularly at the end of the tests.

In the Alessandria area there are six schools involved in the capital, while in Valenza the emails concerned nursery schools and elementary schools: here some temporary evacuations were ordered, with the alarm lifted in a short time.

No evictions, however, in the other provinces affected by the phenomenon. About ten reports were recorded in the Verbano-Cusio-Ossola area, four or five in the Novara area and several others between the Vercellese and Cuneo areas. In all these cases, the checks carried out by the authorities and the risk assessment allowed the teaching activities to continue without interrupting the lessons.

From Palazzo Chigi the signal is clear: it is clear that this is the repetition of an "unfounded message".

Meanwhile, the police are continuing their IT investigations to trace those responsible for the mass sending of communications, which constitutes the crime of procuring an alarm.