A generalized evil. Since the start of the school year in September, schools have been the target of 168 bomb threats, denounced Monday Gabriel Attal, visiting a Parisian college three days after the assassination of a teacher in Arras. These alerts affected the entire territory.
“This is unacceptable and intolerable. These are threats aimed at intimidating and frightening,” said the Minister of National Education. “I want to be extremely clear and firm on this subject,” he added. “For each threat, for each alert, there are reports made to the justice system, there are investigations (…) and we have identified a certain number of perpetrators.”
A “removal of doubt” in progress in Arras
Especially since these alerts lead to the establishment of a “very strict protocol to be respected”, as explained to 20 minutes Éric Henry, national delegate of the Alliance Police Nationale union, a few weeks ago.
For the school district of Arras, “the removal of doubt is still in progress”, declared Gabriel Attal, who spoke in the middle of the day, but “students and teachers should be able to reach their establishment at the beginning of the afternoon “.