Moscovites are mystified by a flood of bomb hoaxes that forced the evacuation of courts, schools, and malls while authorities continue to search for the culprits
People stand outside the Basmanny Court following an evacuation due to the warning of a planted bomb in Moscow on February 6, 2020.
Another Muscovite, Yulia Grebenchenko, said her daughter's school has been evacuated 13 times since the start of December. No one has totted up the exact cost of the upheaval, but the financial damage from a similar wave of telephone bomb hoaxes in 2017 amounted to millions of dollars, Russian officials said.
They did not name suspects or give any leads or motives, nor did they issue any reassurance to the public despite the major disruption.The Telegram messenger account of Saint Petersburg courts has posted scans of messages referring to a shadowy blackmail scheme involving the Bitcoin virtual currency.
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