In the early hours of Friday March 29, a 16-year-old schoolboy was arrested in Cenon, a suburb of Bordeaux in the Gironde region. The teenager is suspected of having made threats to attack a school and death threats against teachers and the school management, as reported by BFMTV. The young man, who attends the Lycée Trégey in Bordeaux, had sent several emails on Tuesday with death threats against his headmistress and four teachers. They have all pressed charges.
In his emails, the pupil announced that he would blow up his school. In each email, he signed his name “Le guerrier de Daesh” (The warrior of Daesh). He was taken into police custody for “death threats” and “glorification of terrorism”. According to BFMTV, the accused partially admitted to being the author of the threats. He justified himself by referring to “laziness in going to class last Tuesday”.
Some employees of the Trégey vocational school had also received threats, which prompted Nicole Belloubet to visit the scene of the incident on Friday morning. There, the Minister of Education announced the creation of a national “mobile school force” that could be deployed in certain schools in the event of security problems. Indeed, schools have been the subject of numerous threats and fake bomb threats for several weeks now.