Italian schools are due to open normally on 12 November after emails announcing bombs reached thousands of institutions. The decision, reported by sources close to the Education Ministry, is justified by the checks carried out, but it does not close the episode: each alert still requires an evidence-based response.
In a video published on 11 November, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said students were taken outside at many schools and law enforcement checked classrooms one by one. She said nothing was found at any school and that there was currently no element pointing to a concrete danger.
The crucial distinction is between the outcome of those checks and the origin of the messages. The inspections described by Meloni support the decision not to let an anonymous email extend into a nationwide school closure. Keeping schools shut after checks found no explosives would give an unverified threat the power to interrupt education across the country. Reopening, however, neither identifies the sender nor settles the investigation.
Meloni said investigators and prosecutors were working with European colleagues and that further messages could arrive. That possibility supports the approach she set out: examine each alert individually while keeping schools operating when there is no specific reason to close them.
Caution remains necessary because no sender, technical origin or detailed investigative evidence has been made public. For families and school staff, though, the immediate operational outcome is clear: following evacuations and inspections on 11 November, schools are expected to be open the next day.
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- ANSA · Top news · Source date: 2026-11-11
- ANSA · Top news · Source date: 2026-11-11
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