Rome, 12 Nov. (LaPresse) – In response to the email bombardment containing bomb threats sent this morning to a number of schools (the provisional figure is 1,803), and ahead of the technical CISR meeting convened for this afternoon, the government, through the Ministers of the Interior and Education, has issued an immediate directive to prefects and headteachers respectively, instructing them to ensure that school activities continue as normal, unless – according to the assessment each prefect will carry out in their area – there are specific and well-founded grounds for alarm. This is according to sources at Palazzo Chigi. The decision by some headteachers to order the evacuation of individual schools, it is explained, took place immediately after the spate of emails arrived, and before they received instructions from the Ministers.
Government to schools: “No evacuation without well-founded grounds for alarm”
Rome, 12 Nov. (LaPresse) – In response to the email bombardment containing bomb threats sent this morning to a number of schools (the provisional figure is 1,803), and ahead of the technical CISR meeting convened for this afternoon, the government, through the Ministers of the Interior and Education, has issued an immediate directive to prefects and headteachers respectively, instructing them to ensure that school activities continue as normal, unless – according to the assessment each prefect will carry out in their area – there are specific and well-founded grounds for alarm. This is according to sources at Palazzo Chigi. The decision by some headteachers to order the evacuation of individual schools, it is explained, took place immediately after the spate of emails arrived, and before they received instructions from the Ministers.