Members of Serbia’s security services have identified several countries from which threatening messages and false bomb reports have come in recent weeks targeting public buildings in Serbia, the Serbian Interior Ministry said.
“It has been determined that eight such threats have come from Poland, four from the Gambia, two from Iran and Nigeria and one from Ukraine, Slovenia and Russia.” the ministry said in a statement Wednesday evening.
The statement also said that the authorities have identified the locations of 19 e-mail addresses from which threatening messages were sent to plant bombs in various locations in Serbia.
“These are foreigners who do not live in Serbia.” was said in the notice.
For these cases, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Serbia has exchanged data through Europol and Interpol and with the authorities in Sweden, Lithuania, Switzerland, Russia and Hungary, but also with the company Google. According to the announcement, 18 addresses are of Gmail service and one email address is from ProtonMail.
The Interior Ministry said that these threatening messages were sent to the citizens of Serbia in the past few days.
“Due to false reports of bombings in public buildings, members of the Ministry of Interior have pursued eight people, citizens of Serbia, for four days. “Two have been arrested and charges have been filed against six other juveniles.” said the ministry.
Serbian Interior Ministry teams were told that during the last three days they have carried out inspections in several hundred public buildings, schools, hospitals and shopping malls throughout Serbia. After these inspections, this ministry said that they have come to the conclusion that all the threats have been false alarms.
Serbian Prime Minister Ana Bernabic said on May 17 that reports of bombings in Serbia were pressure from outside because Serbia had not imposed sanctions on Russia since Moscow launched its occupation of Ukraine. Meanwhile, on May 16, the Minister of Interior, Aleksandar Vullin, said that a special war was being waged against Serbia with reports of bombs.
Members of the Ministry of Interior, of the Police Crimes Directorate, have cooperated in these cases with the Office of the Prosecutor for Organized Crime and the Office of the Senior Public Prosecutor, but also with the Office of the Special Prosecutor for Crimes against High Technology./REL
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