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    "dek": "Hundreds more schools in Ireland and the UK got it. Nothing was found anywhere. It is the third wave against Italian schools in a month, and no one has been blamed.",
    "prose": "Around 6,300 schools in Italy received identical hoax bomb threat emails.[^1] Hundreds of schools in Ireland and the United Kingdom received threatening emails too.[^2] No explosives or suspicious devices were found at any of the schools.[^3]\n\n## Two numbers for Italy\n\nThe reports carry two Italian figures that measure different things. About 6,300 schools received the message. At least 300 were confirmed affected.[^4] RTÉ put the Italian figure at 312 schools on 11 November.[^5]\n\nSchools across Italy were evacuated.[^6]\n\n## The email\n\nThe email was reportedly signed by a Mikhail Andropov.[^7] It included a threat against Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.[^8] Meloni said there was no concrete danger to Italian schools.[^9] A meeting of government ministers was convened.[^10]\n\n## Ireland and the United Kingdom\n\nIn Ireland the emails went to schools in Dublin, Cork and Wicklow.[^11] Gardaí received several hundred calls from schools.[^12] They assessed the emails as not credible.[^13] The Minister for Education said schools did not need to evacuate.[^14] Some schools evacuated pupils or ran precautionary searches anyway.[^15]\n\nIn Northern Ireland, 300 schools reported receiving the emails.[^16] Police there are treating them as a hoax.[^17] Police Scotland is working to trace the source of the messages.[^18]\n\n## A pattern\n\nThis was the third wave of bomb threats against Italian schools in a month.[^19] Less than a week earlier, more than 20 European flights received fake bomb threats.[^20]\n\nThe threats raised concern about hybrid warfare tactics aimed at Europe.[^21] That is a concern, not a finding. Authorities had not assigned blame.[^22] Investigations are under way.[^23]",
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