A 17-year-old young man was arrested and placed in police custody, Thursday March 28, in Malakoff, in Hauts-de-Seine, in the investigation into threats of attacks sent to educational establishments, we learned Agence France-Presse to the Paris prosecutor’s office. The arrest was made by police officers from the cybercrime section of the Paris prosecutor’s office. The suspect “has not yet been auditioned”said the prosecution.
In recent days, several schools throughout France have been targeted by attack threats transmitted via digital workspaces (ENT), connecting teachers, students and parents of students.
In total, 323 threats, in 44 departments and 20 academies, have taken place in France since the middle of last week, the education ministry told AFP on Thursday.
Meeting Thursday afternoon at the Ministry of Education
The Minister of Education, Nicole Belloubet, assured Wednesday, during a hearing at the National Assembly, that“at this stage there is no massive data leak or serious attack on our information systems”. “There is no global digital gap”did she say.
“We have no indication that these were attacks other than French”the minister declared on France Inter on Tuesday. “When the perpetrators are known, the sanctions will[er]are very heavy. This can lead to prison sentences. And there have already been (…) fake bomb threats [pour lesquelles] prison sentences (…) were pronounced »she had completed.
A meeting is to take place Thursday afternoon at the Ministry of Education with elected officials from local authorities and school software publishers, to “identify response measures [à] set up “according to Mme Belloubet.
These facts occur in a context of maximum alert in the face of the threat of attack, following the attack which left at least 137 dead Friday evening in a concert hall near Moscow, carried out by a ” entity “ of the Islamic State organization, at the origin, according to Emmanuel Macron, of “multiple attempts” recent on French soil.