A number of worldwide faculties in Spain had been checked by police with sniffer canines whereas others didn’t open at the moment after they acquired emailed bomb threats which the Inside Ministry described as being hoaxes.
A police supply in Zaragoza confirmed that 4 worldwide faculties within the metropolis acquired such threats, and that the French Lycee Moliere college didn’t open on Monday. Not less than three different British-run faculties in Madrid instructed Reuters they’d acquired comparable threats both final week or on Monday.
In Tenerife, the French Lycee and a German worldwide college acquired bomb threats and didn’t open on Monday, the regional authorities confirmed.
“Concerning the wave of threats, complaints are being taken and the investigation is being centralised. They’re false threats,” the Inside Ministry stated in an announcement.
The French embassy in Madrid confirmed emailed threats despatched to a number of French faculties and different worldwide faculties in Spain, and, though police discovered no suspicious objects, requested that the faculties stay alert.
“The French embassy stays very vigilant… and asks all college administration groups of the French college community in Spain to indicate elevated vigilance,” it stated in an announcement.
El Mundo newspaper stated a complete of 18 faculties in Pontevedra, Tenerife, Zaragoza, Reus, Tarragona, Villarreal and Castellon acquired threats by e-mail.
The e-mail specified no purpose for issuing the menace, a supply at one college instructed Reuters.
