一封暴力荒诞的电子邮件从伪造地址发送给数千所学校，使整个意大利陷入一天的动荡，伴随疏散、警力部署、大量政治表态和全天候媒体报道。据罗马当局称，11月11日周三，意大利约7900个公立学校集团中近6300个收到了包含虚假炸弹威胁的信息。在许多情况下，班级被疏散，学生有时被送回家，部分地区还部署了排爆小组。
A violent and absurd email sent to thousands of schools from a spoofed address plunged all of Italy into a day of turmoil marked by evacuations, police deployments, a wave of political statements and round-the-clock media coverage. On Wednesday, November 11, according to authorities in Rome, nearly 6,300 of the country's approximately 7,900 public school groups received a message containing false bomb threats. In many cases, classes were evacuated, with students sometimes sent home, while bomb disposal squads were deployed in some areas.
同一天，在爱尔兰共和国、北爱尔兰和苏格兰，数百所学校收到类似威胁，附带标题为“死亡临近”、署名“红猫头鹰”的恐吓信息。
On the same day, in the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and Scotland, hundreds of schools received similar threats, accompanied by menacing messages titled "Death is near" and signed "Red Owl."
都柏林定于周四和周五接待约50位国家元首和政府首脑，举行欧洲政治共同体会议，随后召开非正式欧盟峰会。在北爱尔兰、爱尔兰和苏格兰，当局淡化了威胁的范围，北爱尔兰教育部长保罗·吉万表示这些威胁不应被给予任何可信度。警方称发送信息者“在英国境外”。
Dublin was set to host about 50 heads of state and government on Thursday and Friday as part of a meeting of the European Political Community followed by an informal European summit. In Northern Ireland, Ireland and Scotland, authorities downplayed the scope of the threats, which Northern Ireland's Education Minister, Paul Givan, said should be given no credibility. Police said the sender of the messages was "outside the United Kingdom."