A major police operation is currently underway following bomb threats at several schools in St. Pölten, Lower Austria. The wording of the threat is alarming.
According to information from ‘heute.at’, the threat was sent to a total of 16 schools – primary and secondary schools, a special school and two grammar schools in St. Pölten, Lower Austria are affected. Furthermore, the wording in the email is said to have been identical for all those affected: ‘A bomb will go off in the morning. You infidels will die,’ it says, as reported by heute.at.
After bomb threats were received by email against several schools in St. Pölten on Tuesday night, the schools concerned remained closed on Tuesday. The St. Pölten Criminal Investigation Department, the Lower Austrian State Office of Criminal Investigation and the State Office for State Security and Counter Extremism (LSE) have already begun investigations.
In response to an enquiry from Austrian Press Agency APA, police spokesperson Raimund Schwaigerlehner announced that it had been decided in consultation with the education directorate and the police to hold the lessons via distance learning. According to Schwaigerlehner, the threatening emails had been sent directly to the schools. The properties were to be investigated during the course of the day. The neighbouring kindergartens of the affected schools will also remain closed on Tuesday and Wednesday as a precautionary measure.
Three schools in the Styrian capital of Graz also received bomb threats. The schools affected were the GIBS, the St. Andrä secondary school and the Jägergrund primary school (photo). According to the Styrian Provincial Police Directorate, some of the buildings were evacuated and searched.
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