Bomb threats: Ten high schools in France evacuated in the Grenoble area; prosecutor speaks of “the same Islamist bomb threat message”

Ten secondary schools were evacuated on Tuesday following bomb threats. All of them are located in the Grenoble area.

These were the lycées Stendhal, Champollion, Louise-Michel, Vaucanson, des Eaux-Claires, André-Argouges and Emmanuel-Mounier in Grenoble as well as the lycée Marie-Curie in Échirolles, Porte de l’Oisans in Vizille and Jacques-Prévert in Fontaine. At the lycées Porte de l’Oisans in Vizille and Jacques-Prévert in Fontaine, security concerns were allayed in the late morning. The Marie-Curie and Vaucanson high schools had already been evacuated on Monday.

On Monday evening, the public prosecutor of Grenoble declared that “the Lycée Vaucanson in Grenoble and the Lycée Marie-Curie in Échirolles have received the same message about an Islamist-motivated bomb threat. It is of course impossible to know at this stage whether the author of this e-mail is an actual criminal acting in the name of Islam or not”. (…) Le Progrès / Alertes à la bombe : dix lycées évacués dans l’agglomération de Grenoble ; le procureur évoque “le même message d’alerte à la bombe à connotation islamiste” – Fdesouche