A 17-year-old teenager was indicted on Saturday in Paris and placed in pre-trial detention as part of investigations into the sending of threats to educational establishments via ENTs (Digital Work Spaces), said a judicial source.
The young man was arrested Thursday morning in Malakoff (Hauts-de-Seine) by the Anti-Cybercrime Office (Ofac) and placed in police custody.
“Schooled”, he “did not have a criminal record of the same nature”, indicated Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau.
At the end of his police custody, he was presented to an investigating judge of the Paris court who indicted him for breaches of an automated personal data system implemented by the State. in an organized gang, threat of death materialized in writing, image or other object, disclosure of false information in order to make people believe in dangerous destruction, identity theft, apology for terrorism by means of an online public communication service and refusal to hand over the access codes to his phone to the judicial authorities, detailed the judicial source.
He was then placed in pre-trial detention by a liberty and detention judge, in accordance with the prosecutor’s orders, she said.
Since the middle of last week, more than 150 schools located in twenty academies in total have been targeted by attack threats transmitted via the ENT, according to a report Friday from the Ministry of National Education.
The Minister of Education Nicole Belloubet announced on Thursday the suspension of ENT messaging and on Friday the creation at the start of the next school year of a national “mobile school force” which could be sent to schools in the event of “difficulties”.