{"id":526596,"date":"2026-03-18T17:10:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T14:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=526596"},"modified":"2026-03-18T19:32:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T16:32:31","slug":"schools-and-kindergartens-evacuated-in-warsaw-after-bomb-threat-letter-sent-by-alleged-offended-belarusian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/schools-and-kindergartens-evacuated-in-warsaw-after-bomb-threat-letter-sent-by-alleged-offended-belarusian","title":{"rendered":"Schools and Kindergartens Evacuated in Warsaw After Bomb Threat Letter Sent by Alleged \u201cOffended Belarusian\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Emergency services searched for explosive devices in educational institutions across Warsaw today following threatening emails. Children were sent home. A Reform.news reader was also forced to pick up their child from a kindergarten in the Targ\u00f3wek district.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhen I arrived, there was a group of parents with children standing in front of the fence who were not allowed into the kindergarten. Those who had arrived earlier were taken out to the playground. We were told the kindergarten was closed due to threats received. The same thing happened in several other kindergartens. Police arrived and checked the building,\u201d<\/em> the reader said.<\/p>\n<p>Similar situations were reported in other districts of Warsaw. Reform.news is aware of at least one school closure in the Kabaty area.<\/p>\n<p>In parent chat groups, a photo of the letter (available to Reform.news editors) received by one of the schools appeared in the morning. The image was later deleted, and the author of the post (a woman with a name and surname typical of the post-Soviet region) declined to speak with our journalist.<\/p>\n<p>The letter was written in English and signed \u201cMisha.\u201d It contained a threat to use an explosive device unless the Polish government announces a \u201ccomplete ban on the deportation of Belarusians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Similar provocations carried out in the name of \u201cBelarusians\u201d have regularly occurred in Lithuania. In this way, Lukashenka\u2019s \u0441\u043f\u0435\u0446\u0441\u043b\u0443\u0436\u0431\u044b attempt to discredit Belarusian political refugees and provoke a negative reaction toward them among local residents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emergency services searched for explosive devices in educational institutions across Warsaw today following threatening emails. Children were sent home. A Reform.news reader was also forced to pick up their child from a kindergarten in the Targ\u00f3wek district. \u201cWhen I arrived, there was a group of parents with children standing in front of the fence who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":526595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69bad3a3db322.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Schools and Kindergartens Evacuated in Warsaw After Bomb Threat Letter Sent by Alleged \u201cOffended Belarusian\u201d"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143090,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-politics","category-incident"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}