Le Figaro Bordeaux
Caution is the mother of safety.
After receiving several malicious emails, addressed first to two students, then to members of the teaching team, and finally to other students, the management of the Vatel school in Bordeaux decided to reorganize its courses.
Since last Thursday and until next Monday, the lessons usually given on the campus in the wealthy Chartrons district are carried out remotely via video conferences.
“We played the safety card.
The idea was to place the students in a more comfortable situation
,” explains to Le
Figaro
the establishment which provides hotel management training, confirming information from
Actu Bordeaux
.
Sent by a former foreign student, who had resigned in February claiming
“to have found work”
without providing proof, the first emails were received by two students.
He threatened them in English to hurt them with boiling oil.
The first being targeted for having refused his advances, the second for having intervened to protect her comrade in the face of the insistence of the rejected suitor.
In the following letters, also addressed to members of the teaching team in mid-February, the student
“older than his classmates”
criticized the establishment
“for not letting him live his story with the student who 'was a complaint to management'
.
Three complaints filed
The management of the Bordeaux branch of Vatel declares having filed a complaint the next day, February 19, as one of the two students to whom the first threats were addressed.
But the malicious missives did not stop raining down.
Quite the contrary: the student then targeted
“all the generic emails”
that he managed to find by
“saying crazy things which certainly go beyond his thoughts and which can actually be frightening”
.
An enthusiasm which led the establishment to file a second complaint on February 27.
The hotel management school specifies that this reorganization of courses did not prevent students from taking their exams, organized on the second campus of Les Halles, located in the Bordeaux district of Bacalan.
Students who wish, especially if they do not have an internet connection at home, are also authorized to meet on the Chartrons campus to watch their video conference together.