The French Minister of Education, Nicole Belloubet, announced Thursday March 28 that all messaging from ENT middle and high schools is suspended until the spring holidays which begin between April 6 and 27 depending on the region. These are the messaging services that have been used to spread threats against dozens of high schools over the past week.
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Digital messaging, link tools between teachers, students and parents, are suspended “ until spring break probably », declared Nicole Belloubet on RTL. It is on these messaging services that threats of attack have been received over the past week as well as a link to a video of a beheading scene. According to the Ministry of Education, more than 150 establishments were targeted, located in twenty academies in total in Paris and the regions. This decision by the Ministry of Education comes in a context of strong tensions, between threats referring to the Islamic State, particularly shocking images, the international context with the attack on Crocus City Hall in Moscow, and the principal of Ravel high school threatened with death on the internet after an altercation with a student who refused to remove her veil.
Thursday March 28, a meeting took place at the ministry on digital security in schools, to define “ better secure digital work spaces and school life software, in the short and medium term “. “ With representatives of elected officials and publishers, we will deploy a real digital shield », promised Nicole Belloubet on the social network X.
The closure announced by the Minister of Education will make it possible to reset all accounts to secure ENTs. It is likely that the identifiers were hacked quite a long time ago, not by terrorists from abroad, but by young French people. A 17-year-old suspect was also arrested on Thursday March 28 in the Paris region and placed in police custody.
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