He was released after spending a few hours in police custody. This Friday morning, a student from the Emile-Zola high school in Rennes was arrested by the judicial police, we learned from the prosecutor’s office. Thursday morning a little before 8:30 a.m., the 1,500 students of the establishment were evacuated because of a threatening email sent on the Pronote application. The message denounced pell-mell “the education system, teachers, grades, homework” and mentioned the threat “to plant and explode bombs in high schools with the help of the Al-Qaeda group. »
Suspected of being the author of the email, the minor was finally released at the end of the morning, “checks having established that his Pronote account had been hacked and used to spread the threatening message”, specifies Philippe Astruc, public prosecutor of Rennes. Investigations are continuing to try to identify the perpetrator.
For the third time in three days, Rennes-Saint-Jacques airport was also evacuated this Friday a little before noon due to a bomb threat email, we learned from the prefecture. . A security perimeter was immediately set up while the police and a dog team intervened to resolve any doubts. The airport is now in the process of reopening.