More than 100 schools across Germany received bomb threats in the form of emails send on Sunday, May 25th. In at least one case, the anonymous senders made reference to the Islamic State. Lessons on Monday were disrupted and in some schools exams had to be cancelled or delayed.
In Thuringia in Eastern Germany alone 35 different schools were threatened, and in Saxony 25 institutions received emails threatening to blow up the schools.
German police say they are taking the threats seriously, although the risk of actual harm was assessed as low. Police conducted searches at some of the affected schools, looking for explosive devices, but have not found any as of this morning. No schools had to be closed down.
