On May 7, Slovak schools and institutions, including banks, received over 1,100 bomb threats. It led to evacuations across the country, and police announced they had launched a terrorism investigation, AFP reported.
"The act is being investigated as a particularly serious crime - a terrorist attack," said Rastislav Polakovich, deputy chief of the police.
"The emails started arriving at the schools on May 7 at 5 or 6 in the morning," Polakovich said, adding that almost 1,000 of the bomb threats were directed at schools and more than 100 of them were received at banks.
"Police are working at full speed, checking security at schools and working to identify the perpetrator," law enforcement agencies wrote on their official Facebook page.
The perpetrators face life imprisonment.
Lucia Forman, a spokeswoman for the self-governing Bratislava region, said the country had recorded bomb threats at dozens of schools it runs.
"We took all the necessary measures, the children were evacuated and the police are dealing with the case," she said./BGNES