Slovakia records 1,100 bomb threats per day and launches terrorist investigation

Bratislava:

Slovak schools and institutions, including banks, received more than 1,100 bomb threats on Tuesday, prompting evacuations across the country, police said, announcing they had launched a terrorist investigation.

“The act is being investigated as a particularly serious crime of terrorist attack,” said Rastislav Polakovic, deputy police chief.

“The emails started arriving at schools on Tuesday, starting at five or six in the morning,” Polakovic said, adding that nearly a thousand of the bomb threats were directed at schools and more than 100 of them were received by banks.

“The police are working at full speed, checking security at schools and working to identify the perpetrator,” the police wrote on their official Facebook page.

The perpetrators face a possible life sentence.

Lucia Forman, spokeswoman for the autonomous region of Bratislava, told AFP that the country had recorded bomb threats at dozens of schools it runs.

“We have taken all necessary measures, the children have been evacuated and the police are handling the case,” she said.

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