Meloni invites opposition leaders to Palazzo Chigi as investigators probe a pattern of hoax alerts across Europe.Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni has said Italy will not let “an anonymous email decide our children’s school calendar” after a bomb threat was sent to about 6,300 schools on Wednesday, prompting evacuations across the country.  No explosives were found anywhere. The email arrived at around 10.00 on 11 November, warning that a powerful remote-detonated device had been left in the building.Education minister Giuseppe Valditara said about 6,300 of Italy’s 7,476 state schools were targeted. The message did not reach private schools or adult education centres.   Schools in Rome, Milan, Turin, Naples, Tuscany, Puglia and Veneto were among those affected, while the autonomous northern province of South Tyrol reported no alerts, which a provincial official attributed to its separate email system.In a video message on Wednesday evening, Meloni thanked school staff and police for checking thousands of buildings within hours. "I know that for many families it was a day of fear or disruption," she said. Schools will reopen as normal on Thursday.   Who is behind it? The identity of the sender is unknown. The email was signed “Mikhail Andropov”, described as the “leader of the Vilayat of Misoginistan”, the same pseudonym used in recent threats to European broadcasters and in hoax alerts that forced dozens of flights to divert last week.   Initial checks suggest it was sent from a compromised account at Daye University in Taiwan. The text was identical to a message sent to 271 schools on 2 November, which was then signed as the “Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps”. Similar emails reached schools in Scotland and Northern Ireland on Wednesday, and earlier threats were reported in Serbia and Hungary. Genoa prosecutors have opened an investigation into causing a false alarm, interruption of a public service and serious threats, while Milan prosecutors are also preparing a case.   Non permetteremo a una mail anonima di decidere il calendario scolastico dei nostri figli. Chi ha fatto questo voleva una Nazione ferma e impaurita. Troverà una Nazione che domani si sveglia, accompagna i figli a scuola e va a lavorare. È questa la risposta, ed è la più forte che abbiamo. — Giorgia Meloni (@GiorgiaMeloni) November 11, 2026   Meloni declined to speculate. “When there is certainty, you will know,” she said, adding that investigators and magistrates are working with European counterparts.   She said there was no evidence of a concrete danger and that the messages “are not meant to strike, they are meant to frighten”. She warned more could follow. Political context The hoaxes come amid a wave of cyber incidents. Foreign minister Antonio Tajani has been the target of hacker threats, which he said on Wednesday had been extended to his family, including minors. He described a strategy aimed at “creating chaos and undermining citizens’ trust”. Ministers have offered differing assessments. Valditara said the repetition pointed to a strategy rather than a lone hoaxer, while interior minister Matteo Piantedosi called it “premature” to speak of a common orchestration.   Defence minister Guido Crosetto said a strategy of terror was at work alongside opportunistic cranks. Meloni convened a meeting on Wednesday afternoon with deputy prime ministers Matteo Salvini and Antonio Tajani, ministers, intelligence chiefs and the national cybersecurity agency.Opposition leaders are due at Palazzo Chigi on Thursday for talks at 08.30, to share information on the alerts and hacker activity. "On the security of Italians, there is no majority and no opposition, there is Italy," Meloni said in her video post.PD leader Elly Schlein, Movimento 5 Stelle leader Giuseppe Conte, Angelo Bonelli and Nicola Fratoianni of the Greens and Left Alliance, Matteo Renzi of Italia Viva and Riccardo Magi of +Europa have confirmed attendance. Carlo Calenda called the invitation “positive and right”.   Roberto Vannacci’s far-right Futuro Nazionale initially complained of being left out before receiving an invitation; Vannacci is sending the party's lower-house leader, Edoardo Ziello, because of commitments at the European Parliament.