Meloni meets opposition as bomb threats hit 6,000 schools
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Students across the country returned to class after anonymous emails, sent from a hacked university account in Taiwan, forced the evacuation of thousands of schools. The messages, which threatened to annihilate their targets, prompted Giorgia Meloni to summon opposition leaders for a show of national unity against what she described as a strategy of chaos.
Investigators are currently examining a potential Russian connection, noting the mention of a former KGB chief in the digital trail. The panic has been met with a certain irony in Rome: while the government speaks of "cognitive warfare," the defense minister has reportedly cut funding for the military’s digitization and cybersecurity programs.
Away from the school gates, new transparency in job advertisements has confirmed a long-held suspicion among the young: Italian graduates can earn 80% more by moving to Germany. Meanwhile, President Sergio Mattarella spent his day reaffirming Italy’s commitment to multilateralism and human dignity, traditional themes that felt particularly distant as parents spent their morning monitoring school WhatsApp groups for news of the next evacuation.