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A dispute in a Mannheim city-centre café turned into a fatal shooting late on 11 November, police said, before officers tracked down and arrested the suspect, who was wounded in an exchange of gunfire. In Italy, an anonymous bomb-threat email that first hit around 300 schools grew to affect roughly 6,000 schools by 11 November, with about 1,000 schools in Scotland and hundreds in Northern Ireland also targeted; no explosive device was found, officials said.
In Hamburg, police said the 39-year-old daughter-in-law of the gunman who opened fire near the Elbphilharmonie on 10 November is no longer in a life-threatening condition, as a letter believed to be his cited a dispute over his company. An armed gang set vehicles ablaze to block a highway near Foggia, Italy, on 10 November while attacking an armoured cash van, and two overnight shootings in Amsterdam hit a moving bus and a shopfront window, with no one hurt.
Updated by the ECTV Crisis Desk, based on 22 verified stories from the past seven days.
ECTV has published 20 verified stories on terrorism & security in the past seven days. The most recent, updated 12 November 2026: Italy drops automatic school evacuations after new hoax bomb threats.
Italy will no longer evacuate schools over mass-sent bomb threat emails alone, the government said, after a second wave of hoax threats hit schools on Thursday.
5 independent sources · 98% confidenceFrench authorities halted trains through Calais-Fréthun on Thursday morning over a bomb alert; a sweep found no danger and services resumed by mid-morning.
Updated : Bomb-disposal team finds no danger; Calais-Fréthun train traffic resumes from about 11:18 local time.
10 independent sources · 98% confidenceA dispute in a Mannheim city-centre café left 1 person dead and another wounded late on Wednesday, before police shot and arrested the suspect nearby.
5 independent sources · 98% confidenceThe anonymous bomb threat that forced evacuations across Italy on Wednesday reached about 6,000 schools, with about 1,000 schools in Scotland and hundreds in Northern Ireland also targeted.
13 independent sources · 98% confidencePolice are investigating two overnight shootings in Amsterdam, one of which sent a bullet through a moving bus window; no one was hurt.
4 independent sources · 98% confidenceThe 39-year-old daughter-in-law of the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie gunman is no longer in a life-threatening condition, police said, as a letter citing a dispute over his firm emerges.
18 independent sources · 98% confidenceAbout ten masked robbers blocked State Road 16 near Cerignola with burning vehicles to ambush an armoured cash van on Tuesday morning, Sky TG24 reported.
3 independent sources · 83% confidencePolice cordoned off a central Athens street on Monday after a black bag was found, but lifted the alert about an hour later once nothing was found.
4 independent sources · 98% confidenceA Bucharest tribunal replaced the pre-trial detention of former presidential candidate Călin Georgescu with house arrest, as prosecutors can still appeal the ruling.
3 independent sources · 83% confidencePolice have arrested a 16-year-old boy over the fatal shooting of a 19-year-old man in Schiedam, as RTL says the victim may not have been the intended target.
6 independent sources · 97% confidencePoland will pay 100,000 zloty in state aid to each police officer wounded in Saturday's Kraków shooting, authorities said, as the toll stands at nine dead.
Updated : Each police officer wounded in the Kraków attack will receive 100,000 zloty in state aid, Polish media say.
399 independent sources · 98% confidenceA wave of warnings affected passenger flights across several European countries, including a diversion to a French military airbase.
23 independent sources · 98% confidenceA pilot and co-pilot were questioned after their aircraft was escorted by fighters to a French airbase; Aer Lingus defended the crew.
5 independent sources · 98% confidenceA bomb warning affecting a Lisbon–Rome service was investigated while the aircraft arrived from Rome; police found no suspicious items.
9 independent sources · 98% confidenceRomania's intelligence service says it found no explosive device aboard a TAROM flight from Prague, part of a wider wave of threats against European flights.
11 independent sources · 98% confidenceA Czech passenger was detained at Amsterdam Schiphol after a bomb warning at the gate for a Prague flight; the aircraft later departed.
7 independent sources · 98% confidenceOne person died and another was critically injured in an afternoon shooting near the Grandclément district of the Lyon suburb.
3 independent sources · 88% confidencePassengers and crew left the aircraft safely after security checks; a later aircraft fault prevented the onward flight to Tel Aviv.
10 independent sources · 98% confidenceRTÉ and other media outlets in Dublin cleared their premises on Friday after emailed threats; police opened an investigation.
6 independent sources · 98% confidence8 people were killed and one seriously injured in attacks across three villages in Afyonkarahisar on Thursday, authorities said.
14 independent sources · 98% confidenceAn OFAC licence allows steps toward transferring Russian-origin shares but does not authorise the takeover itself.
5 independent sources · 98% confidencePolice searched four aircraft after anonymous threats; no explosives were found and Václav Havel Airport remained open.
6 independent sources · 98% confidenceAn Airbus travelling from Dublin to Rome landed at Évreux in Normandy; French authorities opened security checks.
51 independent sources · 98% confidenceRomanian intelligence officers examined a Milan–Bucharest flight after 182 passengers disembarked; airport traffic continued normally.
17 independent sources · 98% confidenceGerman police arrested a Turkish national accused of ordering the September arson attack on a Starlink ground station in Poland, prosecutors say.
2 independent sources · 59% confidencePolice were sent to Charleroi's city hall in Belgium on Tuesday after a bomb threat, prosecutors said, with the operation still under way.
3 independent sources · 83% confidenceA passenger plane landed in Sofia and was searched by anti-terrorism units after a bomb threat sent by email; no explosives were found, officials said.
7 independent sources · 98% confidenceA Ryanair flight from Manchester to Murcia was evacuated after a bomb threat on Tuesday, one of seven European flights targeted that day; none had explosives.
36 independent sources · 98% confidenceA gunman killed a 33-year-old man and seriously wounded a 32-year-old man near Marseille's La Cayolle estate on Monday night, French officials said.
6 independent sources · 98% confidenceA man died and another was seriously injured in a shooting inside a car in Rotterdam on Monday evening; three people have been arrested.
4 independent sources · 98% confidence