Last autumn, numerous secondary schools and high schools were forced to evacuate their pupils several times due to an increase in false bomb threats.
In Thizy-les-Bourgs at the La Platière college, for example, six threats were received in ten days, requiring as many evacuations for the 180 young people as for the law enforcement officers who were on site to dispel any doubts.
According to the newspaper Le Progrès, the gendarmerie’s investigation into the publication of false information to fake a dangerous explosion has progressed and taken an unexpected turn.
A suspect has been arrested in Morocco. It is not yet clear whether this is the person who sent the emails or an accomplice. Nor is it clear whether it was a Moroccan who was having fun destabilising foreign institutions or a Frenchman who had fled to the Maghreb.
Some malicious emails sent to the Rhodania College contained references to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Lyon Mag