Thousands of schools in Europe get hoax bomb threats
Summary
Thousands of schools across Europe received bomb threats on Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2026, prompting precautionary evacuations and suspended lessons at schools in Italy. Authorities reported no explosives or suspicious devices, and investigations into the messages were continuing.Key Facts
- At least 6,300 schools in Italy received threatening messages, along with hundreds of schools in Ireland and the United Kingdom.
- Schools in Rome, Milan, Naples, Palermo, Bologna and other Italian cities were affected.
- Italian police, bomb disposal specialists and Postal Police inspected schools and investigated the messages' origin.
- Italian media reported that the emails claimed to come from a person using the name Mikhail Andropov and the name of a Russian extremist group.
- The same name and group were linked to a message sent to airport authorities in Rome before flight bomb threats on Nov. 5.
- Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said there was no concrete danger and called a meeting with intelligence and cybersecurity officials.
- Ireland's national police said the threat was not credible and did not advise schools to evacuate.
- Authorities had not assigned blame for the school threats.
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