Lebane: Police Identify Minor Over School Bomb Hoaxes
Leskovac police say a minor from the Lebane area sent four emails to primary schools in October claiming a bomb had been planted. A criminal complaint will follow.
The Leskovac Police Department announced on October 29, 2026 that it has identified a minor from the Lebane area who is suspected of emailing bomb threats to primary schools in the town. A criminal complaint will be filed against the minor for causing panic and disorder.
What is the minor accused of?
According to a statement from the Interior Ministry (MUP), the suspect sent messages to the email addresses of primary schools in Lebane on October 20, 23, 26 and 28, claiming that a bomb had been planted in the schools. Police identified the suspect through the work of Leskovac Police Department officers.
The complaint will go to the Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office in Leskovac, on suspicion that the minor committed the criminal offense of causing panic and disorder. Police did not give the minor’s age or say how the suspect was found, and because of the minor’s age no other details have been released.
Two schools, the morning of October 28
The latest threat arrived on Wednesday, October 28, at around 8 a.m., by email to two schools: OS “Vuk Karadzic” and OS “Radovan Kovacevic”. The Leskovac Police Department confirmed this to the Beta news agency. Parents, as reported by N1, said pupils in grades one through four were sent home that morning.
Dragan Jovic, the principal of OS “Vuk Karadzic”, told the portal Info centar Juga that the message reached the school’s official email address. For the safety of the pupils it was decided to send all the children home, and the Interior Ministry was notified immediately. Police searched the school building and established that the threat was false. Jovic added that classes at the school would run on the usual schedule the next day, October 29.
Info centar Juga also noted that newsrooms received no official notice of the incident during the day and learned of it from parents.
The earlier threat and the situation in the district
Parents of pupils at “Vuk Karadzic” said they received the same threat on Monday, October 26. The Leskovac Police Department confirmed that the same case was reported then, that police searched the school building and that the threat was false. The statement on the minor’s identification lists the same date among the four days on which messages were sent.
On October 28, police also said there had been no reports of similar threats at other schools in the Jablanica District.
As the statement puts it, the minor is accused only on suspicion, and the criminal complaint has yet to reach the prosecutor’s office. What the Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office in Leskovac will decide is not yet known.
