Bomb warnings at several international schools in Spain

Email messages warning about placement bomb received several international schools – French and British – in Spain, resulting in the postponement of classes there, the educational institutions themselves announced.

“We received an email yesterday (Sunday) night at 11:00 PM (local time, 1:00 AM today Greek time) containing a bomb warning. We have informed her police as well as the French embassy in Spain. Until the authorities leave (the school site), the school will not function,” Noel Hegu, director of the Moliere French school in Tharagota, pointed out this morning. This morning the schoolwhich has 1,000 students, did not open at its usual time as fireworks were “on the way”, he added.

The Jules Verne French school in Tenerife, in the Canary Islands archipelago, was also alerted to a similar threat last night, according to Julien Lepani, the school’s principal, but he did not elaborate.

Parents of students at St Georges British School in Madrid received a message telling them the school would open late in the morning after “during the night an email was received stating that a bomb had been planted”.

The school’s management pointed out in its message that “the same warning was sent to many Madrid schools today” and “police believe this is a series of false alarms.”

In the previous week, the British school Kensington had also received “threats by email”, the management noted.

The Spanish police did not want to comment on the incidents.

In France, there have been warnings of bomb placement in airports, train stations and especially schools for months: in mid-November, the French Ministry of Education pointed out that 788 warnings of bomb placement in schools have been recorded since the start of the school year.