30 schools in Cyprus receive bomb threat: “We will conquer Europe, Islam will prevail”

From Greek City Times and the Cyprus Mail

One website says 30 schools, the other 300. 

Bomb threats were sent to more than 300 state and private schools in Cyprus on Tuesday morning, the police confirmed.

A police spokesperson confirmed to the Cyprus Mail that the threats had been received, but that no explosives had been found by the police in any of the schools they had searched. They added that searches at schools and investigations are ongoing. The Cyprus Police have set up a crisis management centre and launched an investigation into the bomb threats. Schools have been evacuated as a precaution to allow bomb squads and sniffer dogs to search.

The email address used to send the threats is disposable and belongs to a Russian provider, but police spokeswoman Kyriaki Lambrianidou was quick to clarify that this does not mean the sender is based in Russia.

The threat was sent in Greek, and read as follows:

“There is a bomb on school grounds. With our swords high, we will make you run. We demand your life because the rule of Allah is our decree. The wind is harsh, whispering in your ear about the death which awaits you. We will sow terror on your shores, just as the brothers did in Sri Lanka, until we arrive at our designated star. (another translation says state)

“Our hearts will burn with the light of Islamic law. We will fill the skies with fire and we will pray. The day that the infidels will die. We will conquer every inch of European soil. Whoever doubts, we will kill him. The blood of the children will drink the sand of the desert. Their screams will rise to the sky. Your world will collapse in your hands.

“In the end, only Islam will remain”.

Police spokeswoman Kyriaki Lambrianidou (said) that both international police organisation Interpol and European Union police cooperation network Europol have both been informed, and that “similar threats” have been sent in both Bosnia and Herzegovina and Hungary.