🔶 Bombing threat in Europe; Evacuation of 300 schools in Italy.
More than 300 schools in Italy were evacuated on Wednesday, November 11, after receiving bomb threats.
At the same time, a number of schools in Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland also received similar messages, but the security authorities of these countries announced after an initial investigation that the threats were not real.
In Italy, the mass evacuation of schools caused thousands of students to leave classes and parents to collect their children.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Maloney announced that there were no signs of real danger to the students and that the police and security agencies were investigating the source of the threatening messages.
One of the schools in Rome informed parents in a message that the students have been moved to a safe place and are still under the supervision of the teachers. Nancy Bego, the mother of one of the students at Rome's Mazzini School, said her daughter Daphne cried after receiving the evacuation warning because the students did not know what had happened.
He added that his daughter was still worried even after she returned home and these threats, despite being unreal, disrupted the daily activities of families and schools.
According to published information, the threatening messages sent to Italian schools were signed with the name of a person named "Mikhail Andropov, leader of the Misogynistan district" (feminists).
The same name was previously seen in bomb threat messages against the offices of the communication system in Ireland and Bulgaria.
However, the true identity of the sender or senders of these messages has yet to be determined.
The new threats occurred in a situation where European countries have faced a series of cyber attacks and acts of sabotage against civilian infrastructure in recent weeks. Chain stores, blood transfusion centers, air traffic control systems and television networks have been among the targets of recent attacks.
Some European officials believe that Russia is behind some of these measures and is trying to increase pressure on the countries that support Ukraine by disrupting the daily lives of citizens.
Moscow rejected these accusations and accused Western countries of trying to defame Russia.
At the same time, the Republic of Salmi was also accused of involvement in cyber attacks against civilian infrastructure in Europe.