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- A large number of Australian schools received hoax bomb threats in late January and early February of 2016. Other similar phone threats, including school shootings and chemical attacks, were also received by a number of schools across Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. A total of 591 threatening calls were received by Australian schools. The police response to the threats was rapid and widespread, and many schools across Australia were evacuated immediately. Widespread media coverage also followed the threats, which drew the attention of the international community. The threats were initially reported to have originated from overseas hackers, while reports from inside the Australian education sector said the calls came from or were affiliated with Nossal High School. An organisation called Evacuation Squad claimed responsibility for the calls. A French citizen was later detained for possible involvement with hoax bomb threats across the world, including Australia, but was later released. The voice on the phone was reported to have been a computerised voice with an American accent. The calls were eventually discovered to have been made by Israeli-United States dual citizen Michael Ron David Kadar, who made the hoax calls from Israel. While the motive of Kadar remains not entirely confirmed, he has stated to the media and to the court on numerous occasions that he made the threats out of boredom. Kadar was diagnosed with autism as a child. Following his trial for the making of the threats, he was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment in Israel. The threats also correlated with similar threatening calls to Jewish community centres, schools and universities, across the United States, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand. Kadar largely targeted Jewish organisations, and schools. (en)
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- January and February 2016 (en)
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- Various schools throughout New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Australian Capital Territory and South Australia, Australia (en)
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- Michael Ron Davis Kadar (en)
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- School children and staff (en)
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- "I did it out of boredom. It was like a game. I understand that it is wrong, and I am sorry and will not do it again." (en)
- "One can imagine... the major inconvenience and fright caused when it was necessary to evacuate students from schools, following the hoax calls that there were bombs there..." (en)
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- A large number of Australian schools received hoax bomb threats in late January and early February of 2016. Other similar phone threats, including school shootings and chemical attacks, were also received by a number of schools across Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. A total of 591 threatening calls were received by Australian schools. The police response to the threats was rapid and widespread, and many schools across Australia were evacuated immediately. Widespread media coverage also followed the threats, which drew the attention of the international community. (en)
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- 2016 Australian school bomb threats (en)
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