Two high school students suspected of being the perpetrators of several bomb threats within their respective establishments will appear before the judges in the spring, we learned on Sunday from the prosecutors of Bordeaux and Mont-de-Marsan.
In Bordeaux, a 16-year-old high school student was referred to the juvenile court on June 6 for
“death threats”
and
“insulting because of origin, ethnicity, nation, race or religion
,” a indicated Sunday the public prosecutor Frédérique Porterie.
He is suspected of having sent several threats and bomb threats by email to teachers and staff at his Bordeaux high school, which he signed with the words
“al-Qaeda”
,
“Daesh”
or even
“Daesh Warrior”
. Before the investigators, the student admitted the facts, justifying them by
“his lack of enthusiasm to go to class”
and contested
“any inclination to take the act”
, added the Bordeaux prosecutor's office.
“From his phone”
In Landes, the suspect, aged 18, is
“suffering from mild mental retardation”
and the investigation revealed
“strong immaturity and isolation within his professional high school”
without
“any sign of radicalization »
, explained the Mont-de-Marsan public prosecutor's office, confirming information from the newspaper Sud Ouest. He sent his threats
“from his phone”
for
“fear of going through the controls”
, said the prosecution.
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The young man was placed under judicial supervision and will appear before the criminal court on May 2 for
“false bomb threats”
. Since the middle of last week, more than 150 educational establishments located in twenty academies in total have been targeted by threats of attacks transmitted in particular via ENTs (Digital Work Spaces), according to a report Friday from the Ministry of National Education.