Charlotte Matteini argued that the uproar surrounding the email threats was primarily fueled by the way the incident was handled by the media and politics. According to her account, the message from the sender, who provocatively referred to the "leader of the Misoginistan," had reached over 6,000 schools in Italy, but the evacuations were about 300. She added that some schools had not seen the email because it ended up in spam, and that others had evaluated it together with law enforcement, deciding not to evacuate. For Matteini, this demonstrated that the procedure was not automatic and that school principals could assess how to intervene. Matteini attributed the panic among students and parents to the way the threat had been communicated, not to the threat itself. She also questioned the usefulness of moving students to the courtyard if the alarm suggested a bomb capable of destroying the building. She criticized the initial coverage by newspapers, which for about two hours had reported evacuations in 300 schools without the text of the email being disseminated yet. In her opinion, the press had continued to highlight the incident even after the message was published and had presented the receipt of spam emails as a national security issue, diverting attention from the implementation of protocols without adequate assessment. Finally, she wondered whether that reaction was useful and whether showing a potential attacker that an email could throw the country into panic was an appropriate way to address a possible hybrid war. #Italia #Scuola #Sicurezza (translated)