Following a corresponding email over the weekend, AHS Vienna West in the Penzing district remained closed for a search at the start of the week, a police spokesperson confirmed an online report by the "Kronen Zeitung". In Graz, five schools were affected, but the Styrian police did not assume any immediate danger. There was also such a bomb threat in Linz.

Bomb Threats Against Schools in Several Federal States

Emails had been sent to the five schools in Graz on the night of Monday, as a police spokesperson told APA. Two of them did not have to be evacuated because the parents of the students were warned early enough. The search of three school locations did not yield any evidence of explosives. The searches were still ongoing at the other schools. "The affected schools are AHS and elementary school Reininghaus, VS St. Andrä, VS St. Leonhard, VS Jägergrund and VS Peter-Rosegger", said the press spokesman of the Styrian State Police Directorate. The police did not assume any immediate danger.

In Linz, a private school received a bomb threat by email early Monday morning. According to the police, the grammar school then independently stopped operations and informed the police. They searched the building, and the operation was still ongoing late in the morning. Every threat is taken seriously and the necessary measures are taken, the executive said. Nevertheless, the investigators seem to consider it likely that there could be a connection with a 20-year-old Swiss man who is already facing proceedings for numerous bomb threats in Austria.

(APA/Red)

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