The threats were not carried out but the case is being followed with the greatest attention.
An investigation was opened in Paris after threats of bomb or explosive attacks made on hacked digital workspaces (ENT) which led to the evacuation of around twenty schools in France, know on Wednesday the Paris prosecutor's office.
The prosecutor's offices of Meaux, Lille and Saint-Malo in particular have divested themselves in favor of the cyber section of the Paris prosecutor's office.
The investigation is open for death threats and attacks on an automated data processing system and the investigations are entrusted to the Central Office for the Fight against Crime Related to Information and Communication Technologies (OCLCTIC), according to the Paris prosecutor's office, confirming information from BFMTV.
“The senders of the emails are not the authors”
“About twenty establishments are concerned by threats which have circulated on the ENT, these internet portals which connect pupils, parents and teachers with similar messages from one end of the country to the other, therefore hacked accounts,” National Education Minister Pap Ndiaye reported on BFMTV on Wednesday.
These messages “also circulated on Whatsapp loops”, he added.
“The police intervened to evacuate the establishments, to search, to check whether these threats materialized.
To date, they have not materialized,” continued the minister.
"We are monitoring things very closely and ensuring that the ENTs are even better secured than they are today", according to Pap Ndiaye.
According to a police source, messages were sent on January 2 and 3 to students' ENT accounts.
Monday and Tuesday, there were evacuations, in particular in establishments in Seine-et-Marne, La Madeleine (Nord), Rillieux-la-Pape (Rhône), Marseille, Caen or even Carvin (Pas-de- Calais).
"Everywhere in France, high schools are recipients of emails threatening attacks on the ENT" but "the senders of the emails are not the authors", explained Tuesday a source close to the investigation.
