Italy convenes security committee after mass bomb threats sent to schools
Italy's Interministerial Committee for the Security of the Republic held a technical meeting at Palazzo Chigi this afternoon after a mass e-mail containing bomb threats was sent to schools across Italy yesterday and today. The meeting was attended by Undersecretary of State to the Presidency of the Council of Ministers and delegated authority for the security of the Republic Alfredo Mantovano, Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi, Education and Merit Minister Giuseppe Valditara, and the committee's technical members.
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According to initial figures cited by the government, 3,778 schools received threats via e-mail today. Authorities recorded 77 evacuations, and in 36 of those schools classes resumed the same morning.
The government said the drop in evacuations confirmed that guidance issued this morning to prefects and school principals after yesterday's events had worked. The Interior Minister is to provide prefectures with operational guidelines aimed at guaranteeing the continuity of public services in complete safety.
A select technical working group will be set up tomorrow morning to establish procedures and tools for short-, medium- and long-term measures. The planned measures are intended not only for schools but also for other potential targets, with central government bodies to define how to quickly recognise baseless threats and set criteria, procedures and chains of command.
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Giorgia Meloni said the government is ready to brief Parliament on the measures to be defined over the coming days.
