On Thursday, 3,778 schools in Italy received emails containing bomb threats.
However, the authorities evacuated only 77 educational institutions. In 36 of them, lessons resumed later that same morning, ANSA reports.
This is stated in a statement by the Italian government following a meeting of the interministerial security committee.
The government stressed that the sharp drop in the number of evacuations confirms the effectiveness of the recommendations that the authorities passed to prefects and school heads in the morning after yesterday’s events.
The main aim of these measures is to prevent unfounded threats from paralysing the work of important institutions, while also guaranteeing the safety of pupils, teachers, school staff, families and society. Under the plan agreed at the meeting, the interior minister will provide prefectures with specific instructions to ensure the uninterrupted and safe operation of public services.
- The day before, on 11 November, more than 300 schools in Italy were evacuated after receiving emails warning of bombs. Similar threats were sent to educational institutions in Ireland and the United Kingdom, and law enforcement agencies consider them to be hoaxes.