At least 20 schools have received
threats of a terrorist attack
between the night of Tuesday and Wednesday in Paris.
It affects the schools in the XII, XV, XIX and XVI neighborhoods of the French capital, as reported by the rectorate of the French capital this Wednesday.
France is in “emergency attack alert”, the maximum alert status of the Vigipirate anti-terrorist plan, after the terrorist attack in Russia by ISIS K, which had already threatened France.
At the Pierre Alviset school, in the V neighborhood of Paris, a message was addressed to parents.
Everyone had to be evacuated before 9 in the morning, after having received "threats of a terrorist nature."
A bomb alert this Wednesday morning forced the evacuation of the Jean de la Fontaine high school, in the charming 16th neighborhood of the French capital.
The school's 1,700 students were sent home
while police searched the building.
“The establishment was evacuated this morning due to the arrival of threats.
Throughout the day an operation will be carried out to eliminate doubts.
We do not want to take any risks for students and staff.
The courses are canceled for today” the authorities wrote about the school platform.
A special unit of the French police carries out a training exercise for a possible terrorist attack, days ago in Paris.
Photo: AFP
The fire alarm went off in the morning at the high school.
When all the students were gathered, they returned to the class to look for their belongings.
The police are checking the establishment.
bomb alert
The messages received by schools via the ETN system refer to “bomb threats”, accompanied by
a video of a beheading, sent to several schools
last week.
“The accounts that have received this message are systematically closed,” reported the Federation of Parents of Public Education Students in Paris, in a message addressed to parents.
He called on families "to review the contents so that children cannot come into contact with them."
At the same time, in the south of France,
dozens of high schools received threats between Monday and Tuesday
, via ENT, where they addressed teachers, students and parents. They join those who had already been sent to the Ile de France, the Altos de Francia and the Great East the previous days.
Threats and fear
The educational community is threatened and afraid to report it.
The secularism law creates difficulties for them with the Muslim population of the high school and, especially, with the use of the veil by young girls, which is prohibited by law.
The director of the Lycée Maurice-Ravel, in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, was threatened after asking three students to remove their veils last February.
This caused “an altercation.”
The rectorate modestly mentions an “early retirement.”
Two people have been arrested following the complaint, with no connection to the establishment.
French police patrol the area of the Eiffel Tower, at a time of maximum alert after the attack in Russia last Friday.
Photo: REUTERS
A new
omertá
in National Education?
The director of the Maurice-Ravel school campus, in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, left his position on Friday, March 22, after receiving
numerous death threats on the Internet, for having asked a student to remove her veil
.
If the rectorate modestly mentions an “early departure” for retirement, the former director justified his retirement by evoking, in an email sent to the internal messaging system, his “security” and that of the “establishment.”
“I finally made the decision to leave my duties as director for security reasons for myself and for the establishment,” reads this message revealed by the communist newspaper
L'Humanité
.
“I am leaving after seven rich and intense years at your side, but also after 45 years in National Education.”
When the case became known this Wednesday, Prime Minister Gabiel Attal announced that he planned to receive the threatened director.
Scared teachers
Three years after the beheading of Professor Samuel Paty by an Islamist terrorist, after showing caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in class in the suburbs of Paris, or five months after the murder of Dominique Bernard, a French teacher in Arras, in the north of France, also with a knife, by a former student of Chechen origin and radicalized, this exit caused another electroshock and fear in French national education.
Marine Le Pen, president of the National Reunification (RN) group at the Bourbon Palace, went further by considering that the "government was incapable of protecting our schools."
“After the murders of S. Paty and D. Bernard by the Islamists, a director resigned under threat of death for having defended secularism,” he lamented.
In one week, at least 130 schools are threatened in France.
C.B.