Le scuole di Vilnius ricevono minacce di bomba il primo giorno del nuovo anno accademico

>**By 09:00 on Monday, the first day of the new academic year in Lithuania, the police received 26 reports about emails with bomb threats received by schools.**

>Revita Janavičiūtė, spokeswoman for the Police Department, has told BNS that all the emails were received in Vilnius and were written in Russian.

>“None have proved to be real,” she said.

>The police currently have no information on any evacuations of educational establishments.

>“There’s no information yet on any preliminary investigations into hoax threats. The situation is still developing, and no specific decisions have been made,” the spokeswoman added.

>Earlier on Monday, the Police Department advised schools and other educational establishments on Facebook not to panic if they receive threatening emails but to stay alert and follow law enforcement recommendations.

>Schools are advised to continue their operations and consult with responsible officers after receiving a bomb threat, rather than calling emergency services.

>The police also urged schools against unnecessary evacuations and asked them to call the emergency services only if an actual suspicious item is found.

>Thousands of hoax bomb threats were emailed to schools, kindergartens and municipal buildings across Lithuania over a few days in October 2023. Latvia and Estonia were also flooded with similar emails.

>Lithuania’s State Security Department then said that this was most likely a targeted and coordinated attack by “hostile states” aimed at causing panic and chaos.

>At least in some cases, however, the bomb threats appeared to have been sent by students.

I remember some months ago a bomb threat in a small Italian town called Trani (50k inhabitants). There was an A4 paper on the wall in the station and this was enought for police, military and anti-terrorism team to close all schools of the town and go check them. At the end they found nothing, it was a joke probably by a student that didnt study that day or something but its funny and at the same time reassuring that a random A4 paper caused all this. Not for nothing Italy in the last 2 decades never experienced organized terrorist attack. Sadly there have been some small internal terrorist attack (lone wolf) with the infamous Italian Unabomber that terrorized the north-east of the country with multiple attacks aimed at childrens in the first years of 00′ luckly not killing anyone but some people got injured by his bombs. The worst attack in these years happened exactly near a school and exactly in the same region where Trani is. A bomb sadly killed a student and injured 10 others so I think this is why Police and Military are so preparated. I really think my country has the strongest anti-terrorism forces in the world as we often arrest international terrorist yet have no attack. Probably only Israel has a stronger one for the reason we all know but anti-terrorism is the hidden jem of our secret services

Someone didn’t take well the fact that summer is over.

We had a ton of these in Serbia 2 years ago. For us it were mostly some Ukrainians sending threats (although later there were also some local idiot kids copying), these are probably coming from Russia. Either way, there isn’t really anything you can do about it, the annoying thing is you still have to follow up on every single one just in case 1 might be true.