threatening calls in high school: arrest of a young man – Le Figaro

The technical investigations carried out by the Central fight against cybercrime has led investigators to the IP address of this young man, according to police and judicial sources. His possible role in this matter yet to be determined.

A young man of 18 was arrested Monday near Dijon in the investigation of anonymous calls threatening Parisian high schools in January.

“the technical investigations carried out by the central fight against cybercrime (OCLCTIC) led investigators to the IP address (identification number of the internet connection) this young man “according to several sources. “His possible role in this matter yet to be determined,” they added, noting that “computer equipment was seized.”

The young man is being transferred to local Sûreté territorial of Paris in charge of the investigation into the threatening calls made to Parisian high schools. “The investigation seeks to establish whether there is a link between calls to the Parisian high schools and threats against provincial institutions, especially in Lyon. Nothing is excluded,” said a judicial source.

Monday, February 1, and for the third time in less than a week, the French and British schools and colleges had received anonymous telephone threats, causing sheltering students or evacuation . Several prestigious Parisian secondary schools, including Henry IV and Louis-le-Grand and the French School of Rome, had already been the target of “threats” in late January, in a very high threat of terrorism context, after the attacks of 13 November in the French capital. Other schools in the province had also received threatening messages.

Each time, the police found nothing and colleges had resumed their normal operation. A similar scenario was also produced on the same dates in the UK, in the Birmingham area. On 1 February, six schools of the British West Midlands and two in Glasgow Scottish town had been evacuated because of new threats.

On Monday, about 2,000 people were evacuated from a high school in Belfort and hundreds of Montreux-Château College (Territoire de Belfort), after malicious call indicating the presence of bombs in these establishments

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