Several educational establishments in the departments of Bouches-du-Rhône and Var received threats of attacks between Monday evening and Tuesday, Le Parisien learned from a police source, in a context where the country is on maximum alert after the attack on Moscow.
According to a police source at AFP, these threats, transmitted via digital work spaces (ENT) connecting teachers, students and parents of students, concerned around fifteen high schools in Bouches-du-Rhône.
Contacted by AFP, the Aix-Marseille academy indicates that there is no evacuation but that the reception of students has in certain cases been postponed while doubts are resolved.
Also read Vigipirate in “emergency attack” after Moscow: the different faces of the terrorist threat in France
Accounts were hacked and messages were sent via the Atrium application, notably in Arles, Martigues, Miramas, Aix-en-Provence and even Marseille, specifies our police source.
Guest of France Bleu Provence this Tuesday morning, the police prefect of Bouches-du-Rhône, Pierre-Édouard Colliex, confirms the existence of new threats and assures that they “are all taken very seriously”.
23 establishments at the Strasbourg academy
“Wave of bomb threats in our high schools, similar to pirate messages received in other regions.
Faced with these threats with Islamist and terrorist content, no high school will be opened without raising doubts,” also reacted Renaud Muselier, president of the Paca region, who specifies that the region will file a complaint.
Wave of bomb threats in our high schools, similar to pirate messages received in other regions.
Faced with these threats with Islamist and terrorist content, no high school will be opened without raising doubts.
The Region files a complaint and demands exemplary sanctions!
pic.twitter.com/w58aaYMbKf
— Renaud Muselier (@RenaudMuselier) March 26, 2024
“During the night from Monday to Tuesday, several educational establishments in Var were the subject of cyber threats,” the Var prefecture also confirmed.
#Security |
During the night from Monday to Tuesday, several educational establishments in #Var were the subject of cyber threats.
✅The internal security forces, police and gendarmerie have cleared doubts and all establishments are open this Tuesday, March 26...
— Prefect of Var (@Prefet83) March 26, 2024
Alerts have been multiplying for several days.
A report given on Monday mentioned nearly 130 attack threats via digital work spaces (ENT) over the past five days in Île-de-France, Hauts-de-France and the Grand-Est region.