🔴Italy: At least 300 schools evacuated after email bomb alerts

At least 300 schools across Italy were evacuated on Wednesday after receiving the same bomb alert email. Education Minister Giuseppe Valditara said officials believed the threats were hoaxes, but the alerts prompted schools to move students to safe areas under staff supervision.

The number of affected schools was expected to rise, and police were investigating. A government source said the email was signed by a purported group leader whose name had also been used to claim responsibility for similar threats sent to newsrooms in Ireland and Bulgaria the previous Friday. The incident comes amid wider European concern about hybrid threats targeting public services and organisations.