Bomb threat in more than 50 educational institutions in Paris

quoted by Agence France-Presse, Paris Municipality announced in a statement: “This morning, Paris educational institutions, mainly colleges, following the theft of user accounts in the digital space, threatening messages they received about the bombing”.

The municipality of Paris stated that classes in these institutions were suspended during the security checks.

In a message sent to parents of Parisian students Wednesday afternoon, the head of educational institutions reported that “more than fifty institutions in the Académie Paris received bomb warning messages today”.

Today, before announcing this news, he said that “twenty schools and educational institutes” were the target of attack threats last night.

The head of Paris educational institutions added in his message to parents: “Some of the messages were accompanied by a video of extreme violence.” He explained: “This morning, it was decided to close the students’ messenger, delete the message and block the user accounts that were stolen”.

He noted: “A complaint has been filed and the Paris prosecutor’s office is conducting an investigation. Students and staff “especially those who were affected by this message” are under the protection of the listening units of the Educational Institute and the French Academy.

The Paris prosecutor’s office, which previously opened an investigation into the threat of bombings at high schools in the Ile-de-France region on March 21, announced on Wednesday two new investigations in Paris into cyber attacks that targeted educational centers in recent days. They put it, it has started.

The Paris Prosecutor’s Office explained about this: “One investigation is related to the messages that were published from the evening of March 26 to the morning of March 27, 2024 through the digital workspaces of the colleges of the Ile-de-France region. The other investigation aims to focus on open cases. Other prosecutions were initiated and related to messages that were disseminated through digital workspaces and other regional jurisdictions.”

These new threats in Paris follow other messages that targeted educational institutions in Ile-de-France and then O-de-France, the Grand Est region and the south of France in the middle of last week.

The French Ministry of National Education announced on Monday that since last week, around 130 high schools and colleges in Ile-de-France, Haut-de-France and the Grand Est region have been targeted. Dozens of high schools in the south of France were attacked from Monday evening to Tuesday morning.

French Education Minister Nicole Bloube assured a hearing in the National Assembly on Wednesday that “at this stage, there has been no news of a massive data leak or a serious attack on our information systems”. He said: “There is no problem in the digital space at the global level”.

The French education minister clarified: “We are currently looking for the accounts that have been hacked and we are requesting the recovery of these accounts. In the long term, we have to see how we can help local communities, with the help of the government, to these environments.” secure digital work”.

The Minister of Education of France announced on Tuesday that he has asked his agents to meet within 48 hours with the representatives of local communities in the French Parliament and their representatives, as well as with the publishers of student software, in order to be able to take measures in the medium and long term that We will be able to react to these threats and identify them.

The Association of French Departments announced in a conversation with AFP that this meeting will be held on Thursday afternoon.