Paris High Schools Targeted with Terrorist Threats and Beheading Video – Ministry of Education Responds

2024-03-21 10:21:00

Messages threatening a terrorist attack and a video of beheading were sent to several high schools in the Paris region, particularly via the digital work spaces (ENT) of these establishments, we learned Thursday from police sources and the ministry. of Education and the region.

According to a police source in Yvelines, a message announcing an explosive attack was sent to at least five high schools in the department on Wednesday evening and during the night from Wednesday to Thursday. “The author(s) hacked a student’s email address in order to broadcast the message and a beheading video on all the boxes,” said this source.

The same message was sent “in four departments of the outer suburbs”, added another police source.

“The police services, immediately notified, are doing what is necessary to ensure the safety of the students,” assures the ministry, citing “several doubts raised” regarding these threats “between (Wednesday) evening and (Thursday) morning” .

The Ile-de-France region announced that it had “filed a complaint this morning with the Paris cyber prosecutor’s office following the creation of a fraudulent site aimed at hacking (hacking, editor’s note) the regional ENT”. “Following this hacking, fraudulent emails were sent to high school students in Île-de-France with threats of Islamist attack,” she added.

The president of the region, Valérie Pécresse (LR), denounced “extremely serious facts, which call for exemplary sanctions for the perpetrators of these offenses”.

The Ile-de-France ENT has been suspended, and the region is “doing everything possible to ensure that the situation returns to normal”.

The threats “came through the ENT, the school’s internal mailbox or even the Pronote site”, specified the Ministry of Education.

National Education “also ensures that there is no compromise of the networks due to the sending of these messages sometimes on internal networks”.

“Specialized investigation services are mobilized to identify the author(s)” and “we obviously condemn these serious threats,” adds the ministry, which “offers psychological support to all children or adults who have watched the shocking videos.

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