In Lyon, a student admits the repeated bomb threats in his high school to cancel classes

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A very funny way to skip class.

Two high school students were arrested on Monday as part of the investigation into the repeated bomb threats that occurred at the Camus-Serlenaz high school in Rillieux-la-Pape at the start of the winter holidays.

The main suspect admitted to being the author of the threatening emails sent early in the morning to the management of this establishment located in the northern suburbs of Lyon.

Aged 15 and educated in this high school, he explained to the investigators that he had incited another student to directly target teachers with death threat emails.

If such messages were indeed sent, the named young man denied his involvement.

A strategy which would have had the sole purpose of canceling the courses, entrusted the first suspect to the investigators of the departmental security of the Rhône.

Other cases elsewhere in France

The objective was achieved since the school had to be evacuated on Monday 20 and Tuesday 21 February.

The white baccalaureate exams had to be postponed.

An important police force was also put in place, for the evacuation and the removal of doubts by the deminers as to the presence of an explosive device.

Not to mention the deployment of private security guards.

This phenomenon is not isolated.

At the beginning of January, an investigation was opened by the cybercrime section of the Paris public prosecutor's office after sending threatening emails to several high schools in France: in Lille, Grenoble, Versailles, in the Oise or even in Créteil.

In all, about twenty establishments were targeted by these bomb threats.

Concerning the two Lyon high school students, they were indicted by the prosecution on Tuesday for threats against people in charge of a public service mission and placed under judicial supervision.

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