Event 15

{
  "attack_type": "Bomb Threat",
  "category": "Sabotage",
  "confidence": "Low",
  "confidence_rationale": "Major local sources report direct threats, official statements from Latvian authorities and police, and coordination with international partners. Details on threat scope, evaluation, and ongoing context are public.",
  "countries": [
    "Latvia",
    "Estonia",
    "Lithuania",
    "Poland"
  ],
  "country": "Latvia",
  "defense_prep": {},
  "description": "Several hundred schools and pre-schools across Latvia, as well as learning centers, received threat letters in their emails during the night to Monday. Authorities evaluated the threats and considered risks low. This follows a series of similar incidents in neighboring Baltic and Polish schools. Officials link the event to hybrid-warfare tactics intended to disrupt public life.",
  "event_time_utc": "2023-10-16T12:00:00Z",
  "evidence": [
    "Hundreds of educational institutions across Latvia received email threats overnight.",
    "The messages were described as having disturbed normal order and linked to efforts to create anxiety.",
    "Latvian authorities (State Police, Interior Minister) described this as part of a wider hybrid threat across the Baltics.",
    "Police and officials confirm widespread threat emails to Latvian schools.",
    "No credible evidence of actual danger; part of wider pattern seen in Baltic region.",
    "Hundreds of educational institutions targeted by e-mailed threat letters overnight.",
    "Latvian Interior Minister and police confirm threat, stress no violent content, context as hybrid campaign.",
    "State Police note similar attacks occurred in Estonia, Lithuania, and Poland."
  ],
  "evidence_quotes": [
    "During the night to Monday, several hundred schools and pre-schools, as well as learning centers throughout Latvia have received threat letters in their e-mails.",
    "The state police have evaluated them, and risks are considered low, according to the State Police's entry on social media Monday morning.",
    "\"Someone is deliberately disturbing our normal lives. We are living in a real hybrid war situation - that we need to be aware of.\"",
    "As recorded earlier by LSM, about 300 schools across Latvia received e-mails on October 10 about possible security risks, and by Monday, about 400 kindergartens received similar threats, arriving primarily on October 11.",
    "During the night to Monday, several hundred schools and pre-schools, as well as learning centers throughout Latvia have received threat letters in their e-mails. The state police have evaluated them, and risks are considered low",
    "\"We are living in a real hybrid war situation - that we need to be aware of.\"",
    "\"police have received assurances from Estonian, Lithuanian and Polish colleagues that they are an equivalent to this threat: that incidents are also ongoing in Estonian and Lithuanian, in some cases with panic in Poland as well.\"",
    "As recorded earlier by LSM, about 300 schools across Latvia received such emails on October 10",
    "The State Police have evaluated them, and risks are considered low, according to the State Police's entry on social media Monday morning.",
    "\"Someone is deliberately disturbing our normal lives, ... We are living in a real hybrid war situation - that we need to be aware of.\""
  ],
  "extra": {
    "category_raw": "Bomb Threat",
    "extra": {
      "extra": {
        "extra": {
          "evidence": [
            "Hundreds of educational institutions across Latvia received email threats overnight.",
            "The messages were described as having disturbed normal order and linked to efforts to create anxiety.",
            "Latvian authorities (State Police, Interior Minister) described this as part of a wider hybrid threat across the Baltics."
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "follow_up_by_country": [],
  "headline": "More threat e-mails received by Latvia's schools Monday",
  "is_continuous": false,
  "location_text": "Latvia (nationwide, affecting schools and pre-schools)",
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  ],
  "notes": "sent out to more than 300 addresses",
  "schema_version": "v1",
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  "sources": [
    "https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/education/16.10.2023-more-threat-e-mails-received-by-latvias-schools-monday.a527885/"
  ],
  "summary_short": "Hundreds of Latvian educational institutions received threat e-mails overnight; authorities assessed them as non-violent and of low risk.",
  "url": "https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/education/16.10.2023-more-threat-e-mails-received-by-latvias-schools-monday.a527885/"
}

{
  "5th Column of Russians Inside (which countries)": "",
  "Attack Type": "Bomb Threat",
  "Borders Including Sea, Air,  Violation or Sabotage (which countries)": "",
  "Continuous? (e.g. Jammers)": "",
  "Country (FI;EE;LV;LT;PL;BSR;Air)\nSeparated by Semicolon": "LV;EE;LT;PL",
  "Date": "16-Oct-23",
  "Defense Prep Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL)": "",
  "Defense Prep Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL) REF LINK": "",
  "Follow-Up Link?  (FI,EE,LV,LT,PL, BSR, Air)": "",
  "Follow-Up NOTES": "sent out to more than 300 addresses",
  "Follow-Up incl. Investigation, Prosecution?  (FI,EE,LV,LT,PL, BSR, Air)": "",
  "Latitude, Longitude (WGS84, Decimal Degrees)": "",
  "NOTES": "LV School Bomb Threats \"Across Baltics\"",
  "Political Disruptions w/ Laws to Favor Kremlin (which countries)": "",
  "Russian-Belarus Terrorist Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL)": "More bomb threats at Latvian schools. this morning around 6 there was another wave from another e-mail but with the same text. Estonia also received similar threat emails during the weekend   they were sent to educational institutions, airports, and courts.\n It continues in LT and PL",
  "Russian-Belarus Terrorist Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL) REF LINK": "https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/education/16.10.2023-more-threat-e-mails-received-by-latvias-schools-monday.a527885/",
  "Screen Snapshot": "",
  "Screen Snapshots": "",
  "Type Dropdown": "",
  "Where?\n(Air, Land, Sea)": ""
}