Italy

Italy has faced repeated waves of hoax bomb threats against schools in recent weeks. On 12 November, fake bomb-threat emails reached about 1,800 schools nationwide, prompting the government to end automatic evacuations over mass-sent emails alone; a local prefect can still order one if there is concrete evidence of danger. A day earlier, an earlier wave had grown to about 6,000 Italian schools, with roughly 1,000 schools in Scotland and hundreds in Northern Ireland also targeted; no explosive device was found at any school, and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said there was no evidence of concrete danger.

Other incidents in the past week include an armed robbery on 10 November, when around ten masked, armed men blocked the SS16 highway near Cerignola, in Foggia province, with burning vehicles and attacked an armoured cash van with cutting tools and explosives; no injuries were reported and it remains unclear whether cash was taken. On 9 November, a cyberattack hit Italy's Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate, which said hackers copied only material already public on its website, though a dark web seller has offered a file claiming to contain operational data, a claim that remains unconfirmed.