{"id":342511,"date":"2018-01-05T18:09:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T17:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/malmo-university-closed-on-monday-after-e-mail-threat\/"},"modified":"2018-01-05T18:09:47","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T17:09:47","slug":"malmo-university-closed-on-monday-after-e-mail-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/malmo-university-closed-on-monday-after-e-mail-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Malm\u00f6 University Closed on Monday after E-mail Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>Malm\u00f6 University will be closed on Monday after a &#8220;serious threat&#8221; directed at the university.<\/p>\n<p>At a press conference on Friday the university explained it could not disclose further details about the nature of the threat at the moment, but said it had been received by e-mail on December 29th and it concerned Monday, January 8th. Described as &#8220;serious&#8221;, it has been reported to the police, who were investigating.<\/p>\n<p>Police said on Thursday that they were as of yet unable to say whether or not the threat was credible, but as a precaution the university urged staff and its 24,000 students to work from home on January 8th.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it is important to keep everyone informed about the situation and have decided that the university will be closed on Monday,&#8221; said vice-chancellor Kerstin Tham in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Naturally we put the safety of students and employees at the forefront.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The university said any exams due to take place on Monday would be rescheduled and students would be notified of new times and venues.<\/p>\n<p>A centre for higher education (h\u00f6gskola) in Sweden since 1998, the school formally became a university on January 1st, 2018.<\/p>\n<section>\n<h2>Comments<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/malm%C3%B6-university-closed-on-monday-after-e-mail-threat\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malm\u00f6 University will be closed on Monday after a &#8220;serious threat&#8221; directed at the university. At a press conference on Friday the university explained it could not disclose further details about the nature of the threat at the moment, but said it had been received by e-mail on December 29th and it concerned Monday, January [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-342511","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}