Sixteen emails kept St. Pölten on edge: the majority of the capital’s schools were the target of a bomb threat on Tuesday evening. They are blocked. The “crown” knows the contents of the letter.
A seemingly inconspicuous email in the electronic mailboxes of 16 directorates had a huge impact on the capital on Tuesday morning. There was no subject, but the content made the blood of the school directors run cold. Initially, a few lines of text were written in Arabic, but the sender immediately took care of the translation.
And it was unmistakable: “You will pay for your disbelief. An explosive was placed in the building during maintenance work. It explodes on Tuesday at noon. At the beginning of the letter, the author apologized to the students for his “explosive news threat.”
The identical emails were signed ‘Abu Ibrahim’, the name of a German jihadist imprisoned in France and said to have close contacts with Osama bin Laden.
The crisis team met in the early morning hours and a little later it became clear: none of the affected schools were teaching. Many parents were informed in a timely manner within the school, but for some this came too late. Her children were already on their way. At least two schools said the threat ended up in the spam folder, where it was only discovered shortly before the start of class at the request of the police. The affected children were either escorted by teachers to safe alternative places or had to be picked up again.
According to the education directorate, the care places were organized together with the school board. The Hesser Barracks was quickly opened for approximately 300 students. Children were also placed in other “secret” locations on Tuesday. It also soon became clear that schools would remain closed on Wednesday. “This decision was taken in consultation with the police for security reasons,” the Education Directorate explains.
All affected buildings were monitored by the executive and the interiors were thoroughly searched. The sender itself is still unknown. Whether this is the same menacing writer who simultaneously wrote to schools in Upper Austria, Styria, Carinthia and weeks earlier to the primary school in the Wagram district of St. Pölten is now the subject of intensive investigation.
Source: Krone
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