On Saturday, middle and high schools in the academy of Amiens, Lille and Ile de France had already suffered the same fate. This Monday, around ten establishments at the Reims academy as well as around thirty in Alsace were the targets of threats of attacks via their hacked Digital Work Spaces (ENT). In all, nearly 130 establishments have been targeted by threats since last week, according to the ministry.
The middle and high schools concerned, whose accounts were hacked during the night from Sunday to Monday, are therefore located in Marne, Ardennes, Aube, Haute-Marne, Haut and Bas-Rhin.
According to the rectorate of the Reims academy, some of the messages received contain a video of beheading, like the messages sent last week to around fifty establishments in Ile-de-France.
Today, several establishments in France have had to close because of threats. In certain cases, “listening cells” for students had to be deployed. Access to ENTs at these three academies has been suspended until further notice.
“We are tracking them”
“They think they remain anonymous but we track them. They think they are safe but we sanction them. Several dozen perpetrators of these threats, which occurred in recent months, have already been brought to justice (brought to justice),” declared Prime Minister Gabriel Attal last week after the threats received in the establishments of Ile- of France.
The government counted 800 false bomb threats in mid-November during a previous series of alerts in the fall. They multiplied after the jihadist attack which cost the life of teacher Dominique Bernard, in Arras (Pas-de-Calais), on October 13.