{"id":15422,"date":"2026-11-11T20:45:51","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T20:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/11\/thousands-of-hoax-bomb-threats-sent-to-schools-in-italy-u-k-police-say-national-globalnews-ca\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T20:45:51","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T20:45:51","slug":"thousands-of-hoax-bomb-threats-sent-to-schools-in-italy-u-k-police-say-national-globalnews-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/11\/thousands-of-hoax-bomb-threats-sent-to-schools-in-italy-u-k-police-say-national-globalnews-ca\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of \u2018hoax\u2019 bomb threats sent to schools in Italy, U.K., police say &#8211; National | Globalnews.ca"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wpe_imgrss\" 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Press.<\/p>\n<div class=\"l-article__part\" data-shortcode=\"tp_video_miniplayer\">\n<section id=\"miniplayer_6af4d213271ce-carousel\" class=\"l-videoCarousel l-videoCarousel--embed c-carousel\" data-video-carousel-play-inline=\"true\" data-video-carousel-init=\"false\" aria-label=\"Video carousel contains 3 videos.\">\n<div class=\"l-videoCarousel__inner\">\n<div class=\"l-videoCarousel__featured\">\n<div class=\"c-video c-videoPlay \" data-iframe-receiver=\"\" data-autoplay=\"\" data-displayinline-featured=\"true\" data-displayinline-type=\"video\" data-displayinline-player-id=\"miniplayer_6af4d213271ce\" data-displayinline-video-id=\"12140719\" data-displayinline-ratio=\"16:9\" data-displayinline=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/video\/embed\/playlist\/12140719,12139220,12138361\/?poster=https%3A%2F%2Fi0.wp.com%2Fmedia.globalnews.ca%2Fvideostatic%2Fnews%2Fd6knfa0fyy-f41vvoaidn%2FSHANNON%3DWEB.jpg%3Fw%3D1200%26quality%3D70%26strip%3Dall#autoplay&amp;stickyiframe=miniplayer_6af4d213271ce\" 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video message <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GiorgiaMeloni\/status\/2120596347271188849\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shared on X<\/a>, Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni said the government would not let \u201can anonymous email decide our children\u2019s school calendar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhoever did this wanted a nation that was paralyzed and afraid. They will find a nation that wakes up tomorrow, takes its children to school, and goes to work. That is the response, and it is the strongest one we have,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"l-article__oembed embed-twitter\" readability=\"30.887978142077\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"11.472677595628\">\n<p lang=\"it\" dir=\"ltr\">Non permetteremo a una mail anonima di decidere il calendario scolastico dei nostri figli.<br \/>Chi ha fatto questo voleva una Nazione ferma e impaurita. Trover\u00e0 una Nazione che domani si sveglia, accompagna i figli a scuola e va a lavorare. \u00c8 questa la risposta, ed \u00e8 la pi\u00f9 forte che\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7oSUrjxd7l\">pic.twitter.com\/7oSUrjxd7l<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Giorgia Meloni (@GiorgiaMeloni) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GiorgiaMeloni\/status\/2120596347271188849?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 11, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Investigations were underway, she added, saying that a meeting of ministers was scheduled to take place late Wednesday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\" readability=\"32\">\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The anonymous email also contained a threat to Meloni, the AP and LaPresse news agency reported; she did not address the threat in her statement.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup\" data-newsletter-inline=\"\" readability=\"5.2635379061372\">\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup__image\">\n\t\t\t\t<img width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Thousands-of-\u2018hoax-bomb-threats-sent-to-schools-in-Italy-U.K.-police-say-National-Globalnews.ca_.jpg\" alt=\"Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you'll never miss the day's top stories.\"\/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup__content\" readability=\"29.388086642599\">\n<h2 class=\"c-inlineSignup__title\">Get daily National news<\/h2>\n<p>Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you&#8217;ll never miss the day&#8217;s top stories.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The email reportedly contained especially violent threats and was signed by the same name used in last week\u2019s threats against European broadcasters. Investigators have not attributed the threats to any group or state, and there is no evidence linking the hoaxes to any governments, the AP reports.<\/p>\n<p>The Police Service of Northern Ireland <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psni.police.uk\/latest-news\/threatening-emails-over-300-schools-being-treated-hoax\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">confirmed Wednesday<\/a> that it was investigating the circumstances of threatening emails sent to schools across the country, and said it was treating the incident as a hoax.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-tabs\" readability=\"0.47102803738318\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t<button role=\"tab\" class=\"c-tabs__tab c-tabs__tab--active\" type=\"button\">More on Trending<\/button><br \/>\n\t\t\t<button role=\"tab\" class=\"c-tabs__tab\" type=\"button\">More videos<\/button>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cOver 300 schools to date have reported to police receiving the same emailed message which contained a threat. It is believed similar emails have been received by some schools in Scotland,\u201d the statement said. The email originated from outside the U.K., it added.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Chief Constable Anthony McNally said: \u201cWe take incidents of this nature very seriously and we understand the concern in the community, school communities and for students and parents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Also on Wednesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotland.police.uk\/what-s-happening\/news\/2026\/november\/statement-after-threatening-messages-sent-to-a-number-of-schools-in-scotland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Police Scotland<\/a> said several schools in Scotland had received \u201cthreatening messages,\u201d and were also being treated as hoaxes.<\/p>\n<p>It acknowledged the distress it may have caused to pupils and parents but said there was no requirement to evacuate schools based on the content of the emails, which it said do not \u201crepresent a credible threat.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\" readability=\"32\">\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The school threats came less than a week after flights across Europe faced disruptions after false bomb threats were sent to several airlines, including Polish airline LOT, Scandinavian Airlines, Wizz Air and Ryanair. The incidents occurred a day after a plane headed for Bulgaria was diverted to Hungary after receiving a similar bomb threat while in the air. No one was injured.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/israel-bulgaria-plane-bomb-threat-56c58276994e962a940bccd6edfdd806\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">a flight from Tel Aviv to Vienna<\/a> made an emergency landing in Bulgaria following a bomb threat.<\/p>\n<p>False bomb threats are relatively common, but the latest raised concerns because they came in the wake of other disruptions across Europe, including attacks on supermarket refrigeration systems and drone incursions as well as bomb threats sent to newsrooms in Ireland and Bulgaria on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 with files from the Associated Press<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"33\">\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">: World<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italy\u2018s Premier Giorgia Meloni said there was no indication of any \u201cconcrete danger\u201d to schools nationwide on Wednesday after hundreds of educational institutions in the country were evacuated following an&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15423,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}