Tomorrow, Thursday, November 12, schools will reopen regularly throughout Italy. Sources close to the Ministry of Education report, "there is no reason to keep them closed."
Today at Palazzo Chigi, following the bomb scare that affected over 6,000 institutions across Italy , many in Sardinia, a security summit was held that lasted approximately two hours. The meeting was attended by the two Deputy Prime Ministers Antonio Tajani and Matteo Salvini , the Undersecretaries to the Presidency of the Council Giovanbattista Fazzolari and Alfredo Mantovano, the Ministers of Defense Guido Crosetto and of the Interior Matteo Piantedosi .
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has decided to move up the meeting with opposition leaders from 9:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. tomorrow. The purpose of the meeting is "to share available information and review the complex picture of alarms and reports received in recent days, including those related to hacker activity, including reports of suspected explosive devices in schools."
The leaders of the opposition parties will be present: Elly Schlein (PD), Giuseppe Conte (M5S), Matteo Renzi (IV), Angelo Bonelli (Avs), Riccardo Magi (+Europa), and Carlo Calenda (Azione) have announced their attendance. Roberto Vannacci, leader of the National Future Party, will not be present. He "thanks" Meloni for the invitation but has delegated Edoardo Ziello, leader of the group in the Chamber of Deputies, "due to concurrent commitments in the European Parliament plenary session."
The alarm
This morning, an email sparked panic in over 6,000 schools across Italy, including several in Sardinia, leading to the evacuation of schools and the entry of bomb squads into the buildings. It turned out, as with the plane crashes in recent days, to be a false alarm.
From Sestu to Cagliari, from Iglesias to Nuoro, from Villasimius to Castiadas, Selargius, Porto Torres, Olbia, dozens of schools have been evacuated across the island . Only in Sassari has no schools been evacuated.
The email
The text of the letter that raised the alarm: "This is Mikhail Andropov, leader of the Vilayat of Misoginistan. We have come to annihilate you. We will carry out genocide against the Italians . I have long prepared for this: to kill each and every one of you. I have just left a powerful, remote-controlled explosive device in your building, inside a plastic bag. I positioned it so that the shock wave will spread throughout the building. All that will remain of you will be bones and a bloody mess . Furthermore, we have planted a bomb in the engine of your prime minister's car. After that, we will finish off the survivors with stab wounds."
No concrete danger
The checks revealed no concrete danger. "Law enforcement and institutions at all levels are working to monitor the situation and reassure citizens, families, and school staff. The checks conducted have revealed no evidence of a concrete danger . The reports appear to be part of a strategy aimed at generating alarm and concern, which is currently being fully investigated," declared Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni .
Defense Minister Guido Crosetto : "There's a risk of creating alarm, and it's all too easy. Any one of us could, with the tools available today, send an email to a school, a kindergarten, or an airline saying there's a bomb. It's part of a strategy that even idiots can play into, because foreign countries' strategies or hostile actions aren't always the result. There are also mythomaniacs and madmen who, at a time like this, can't wait to unleash terror in a city ."
(Unioneonline)
