After 245 schools in Budapest and 23 in the countryside received bomb threats yesterday, the government has announced that no explosives were found and school can resume safely for all students.
“Teaching can continue safely in all Hungarian schools on Friday,” said Interior Minister Bence Rétvári.
Orbán also addressed the threats in a morning radio interview, saying, “We must be prepared for the fact that after yesterday’s threats, others will try something similar. Once something like this happens, there will be cases in the coming days when someone feels like doing something like this. It’s one thing to find out what happened, but we have to be prepared for further provocations.”
“If we had let the migrants in, there wouldn’t be threats, there would be acts of terrorism,” the prime minister added.
According to a report out of Atlatszo, a Reddit user managed to hack the disposable email address used to send the threatening letters. A Russian Yandex email provider was used, although the confirmation email came from an email ending in yandex.com.am, not yandex.com. The ending “.am” is an Armenian domain ending, but the yandex.com.am site belongs to the Russian provider.
The disposable email addresses used for the bomb threat were created through a mail service operated in Ukraine by the Ukrainian internet service provider Komitex.
“We can be proud that we have a well-functioning country, Hungary has proven today that we, Hungarians, can come together in times of trouble,” Rétvári said, thanking the teachers, parents, and police officers for their calm and cooperation.
He also noted that a steering group was established, with members from the National Police Headquarters, the Budapest Police Headquarters, the National Investigation Bureau, the National Protection Service, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, the Counter-Terrorism Center and disaster management.
They do not yet know the parties responsible for the threats, but the investigation is underway, with some initial results that will be shared with the public when confirmed.
“We contacted the Slovak, Czech, and Bulgarian police, hoping that we could help each other’s investigation, and they also notified Europol, which can also help with the procedure. It is important that we investigate this, find out, and apprehend the perpetrator,” the interior minister said.
Assessing the “dangerous era” we live in, Rétvári said: “Hungary is trying to exclude this by closing the southern border, with its anti-migration policy, by not allowing a single illegal migrant in. We should not accept what the Mayor of London said, that we must now get used to the fact that various attacks are part of life in a big city.”
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— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) January 2, 2025“We do not accept anything that threatens our security, whether it is migration or other social changes that reduce security, we fight against them,” he added.
