TIRANA, December 12 – Employees of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in North Macedonia have recently been evacuated after a bomb threat was sent to the email address of this institution.
“After the checks of the specialized anti-terrorist teams of the police forces, it was determined that it was a false alarm,” said the announcement of the Ministry of Internal Affairs released on Monday and quoted by REL. This is the first alarm about the placement of bombs in a state institution since the appearance of this phenomenon on November 26. Dozens of secondary schools in Skopje and shopping malls have received bomb threats, but all have turned out to be false.
On Monday, bomb threats were also sent to the Public Transport Center, the “East Gate” and “Biser” shopping centers, as well as the “Flat Iron” building.
The leaders of the relevant institutions have not yet managed to discover the source of sending the threats through e-mails.
The Macedonian Prime Minister, Dimitar Kovačevski, said that it is probably a “cyber war” that, according to him, aims to intimidate citizens and destabilize the country.
He said that the institutions are in contact with the international community for help in dealing with this phenomenon. /Argumentum.al
