️🇮🇹 - At least 300 schools across Italy were evacuated on Wednesday after receiving email bomb threats, with Education Minister Giuseppe Valditra warning that the number of affected institutions could rise, according to Reuters.
The anonymous emails were signed under the name "Mikhail Andropov", a self-styled leader of a pro-Russian anti-women group. The threats also claimed that a bomb had been placed in Prime Minister Georgia Maloney's car.
Maloney stated that investigations revealed no real danger, while government sources described the emails as part of a strategy to raise alarm rather than a real threat. Police and bomb squads searched dozens of institutes in cities including Rome, Naples and Sardinia. The mass evacuations come amid a growing wave of hybrid warfare incidents across Europe, which have recently targeted supermarkets, blood banks, air traffic and television stations.