Overview
- Police Noord-Nederland confirmed that five schools and one organized residential location received bomb threats on Thursday morning.
- OBS De Achtbaan in Hoogezand was evacuated after an anonymous call, the building was searched, nothing was found, and pupils returned to class.
- In Drenthe, the threats targeted the COA reception location in Eelde and OBS Hesselanden on the COA site in Emmen, where protocols were followed and lessons later resumed.
- A COA spokesperson said the caller to the Eelde site posed as a police officer before making the threat, while authorities are withholding other school names for now.
- Police say the messages were of the same nature and very likely false, and they are investigating who made the calls; earlier reports were corrected from six schools to five schools plus one residential site.