Posted by Chinenye on Thu 12th Nov, 2026 - tori.ng
More than 1,800 schools in Italy have received messages warning that bombs would be planted in their buildings.
(Bomb squads searching schools. Photo by BBC News)
Schools across Italy received bomb threats for the second day in a row, causing fresh panic and evacuations.
About 1,800 schools from Milan in the north to Sicily in the south reported a threat similar to the one that caused chaos on Wednesday.
No devices have been found anywhere.
The Italian government told schools that without real proof beyond a mass email warning of danger, buildings should not be evacuated.
Schools in Scotland and Northern Ireland also got threats on Wednesday.
It is not clear if the incidents are linked.
On Thursday morning, a bomb alert at a rail station in Calais in northern France delayed international and national train services.
This came after a string of bomb hoaxes last week targeting airports and airlines in several European countries.
An extremist misogynistic group claimed some of the threats but later denied any link to the fake warnings.
The Wednesday email was sent to 6,300 of Italy's 7,476 state schools.
It was signed by a person calling himself Mikhail Andropov, leader of Vilayat di Misoginistan.
Some officials say it came from Taiwan.
A similar message sent on Thursday, also signed by Andropov, appears to have come from the account of a teacher in the Philippines that may have been hacked.
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni described the threats as a strategy meant to cause alarm and concern.
Authorities have also said there is no risk to the public from the hoax threats.
Many parents are worried and are demanding clear answers and action from the government.
La Repubblica reports that protests have been held against a headmaster of a secondary school in Rome who took no action.
She said the threatening message had typing errors and so she judged it to be fake.
Protesters want the government to issue new national guidelines.