At least 300 Italian schools were evacuated on Wednesday, 11 November, after bomb-threat emails, according to Education Minister Giuseppe Valditara. He said the number could rise. The immediate significance is the scale of the precautionary disruption: even if the messages prove false, they have already interrupted school life across hundreds of sites.
Libération reported that hundreds of institutions received the same alert message. Valditara said the broad circulation made hoaxes likely. That is an assessment by the minister, rather than a reported outcome of a police investigation: the supplied material gives no search results, no source for the emails and no report of any device.
Evacuation remains a proportionate precaution when a threat is received. Calling the episode a hoax too quickly would understate the public disruption an anonymous message can cause across hundreds of schools. At the same time, the shared wording and very large number of targets explain the minister’s view, but do not by themselves identify who sent the emails or establish how credible they were.
For families and staff, the concrete development is that the affected schools were evacuated. For authorities, the next substantive task is to determine where the emails came from and what the checks found. The supplied reports do not specify the areas affected or whether all evacuations had ended.
Sources: France 24, Libération and Le Figaro.
Sources
- Le Figaro Actualités · Source date: 2026-11-11
- Libération Actualités · Source date: 2026-11-11
- France 24 Tous titres · Source date: 2026-11-11
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