Overview
- Roughly 300 schools received anonymous bomb‑threat emails that prompted precautionary evacuations and police searches across cities including Rome, Milan and Naples, which officials said occurred Wednesday.
- The messages were signed by a named individual calling himself Mikhail/Michail Andropow and invoked a group styling itself as 'Wilayat Misoginistan' while threatening violence against Italians.
- Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced that inspections turned up no evidence of a concrete threat and convened a government crisis meeting with ministers and security agencies to coordinate the response.
- Italian investigators and the National Agency for Cybersecurity treating the incidents as likely cyber‑enabled hoaxes or part of a broader hybrid‑threat pattern have begun probes while technical traces such as a reported sender address in Taiwan are being viewed as unreliable.
- The school warnings follow a recent wave of similar anonymous threats that disrupted flights and media outlets in Europe, raising calls in Rome for a clearer national cyber‑defense strategy and closer protection for students and staff.