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."
"We will not allow an anonymous email to decide the school calendar," Giorgia Meloni reiterated .
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.
No concrete danger
The checks revealed no concrete danger, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni clarified, taking stock of the situation in a video posted on social media after the security summit. From the meeting, she said, "We learned three things in particular. To date , there is no evidence of a concrete danger. These messages aren't intended to shock, they're intended to scare . Investigators and the judiciary, along with their European colleagues, are working to determine who is behind them. I won't speculate; when we have certainty, you will know."
"Today," Meloni recounted, "thousands of Italian schools received a message announcing a bomb. In many schools, the students were made to leave, the police checked classroom by classroom, and I'll tell you the most important thing right away: nothing was found in any school . I know that for many families it was a day of fear or distress, I understand that, and clearly I don't underestimate it."
More threatening messages could arrive, the prime minister acknowledged: "But it won't be a sign that something has gone wrong; it will be proof that those sending them have nothing else and will find us ready. We are working to deploy all the tools we have to minimize the impact of these attacks . Each alert will continue to be verified individually."
The prime minister also recalled the false alarms about airplanes in Europe in recent days and announced a meeting with the opposition scheduled for Thursday morning, November 12: "On the safety of Italians, starting with perceived safety, there is no majority and no opposition: there is Italy. Whoever did this wanted a nation that was immobile, a nation that was fearful: they will find a nation that wakes up tomorrow, takes its children to school, and goes to work . This is the best and strongest response we have to give."
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 ."
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."
(Unioneonline)
