Several schools in Italy are evacuated again this Thursday due to bomb threats

For the second day in a row, several schools in Italy have had to be evacuated due to bomb threats. This Wednesday, thousands of Italian schools had to be evacuated after receiving false bomb alarms from an email with a Taiwanese domain.

Italy's opposition parties on Thursday demanded firmness and protocols from the Government of Giorgia Meloni to prevent cyberattacks and false bomb threats like those that have affected thousands of schools in the country.

The far-right leader gathered this morning at the Chigi Palace, headquarters of the Italian Executive, the different leaders of the center-left opposition with the aim of addressing together the situation of national computer security.

Meloni has asked them for unity and has announced that he will appear before Parliament to illustrate the current situation.

The secretary of the Democratic Party, Elly Schlein, upon leaving the meeting, thanked the decision to convene them and, although she offered her collaboration to face this scenario, she recalled that "the responsibility of guaranteeing public order belongs to the Government."

"We as the opposition are willing to collaborate in the face of threats to our country and social alarm but we will not give blank checks to the Government about the decisions it will make. It is necessary to strengthen coordination between competent institutions in matters of cybersecurity. We have asked to divert resources to that," he declared.

Along the same lines, the president of the 5 Star Movement, former Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, confirmed the "maximum availability to collaborate" but attributed responsibility to the Executive: "We must assess its effectiveness," he warned.

For his part, the leader of the centrist Italia Viva and also former governor, Matteo Renzi, resorted to his well-known irony when pointing out that "what happened could be avoided with a good antivirus."

"Instead of spending money on Paragon (software) to spy on journalists, let's also buy some good antivirus," Renzi attacked as he left the meeting.