Threats against high schools: Nicole Belloubet “suspends” messaging in all ENTs

Europe 1 with AFP // Photo credit: XOSE BOUZAS / HANS LUCAS / HANS LUCAS VIA AFP 7:42 p.m., March 28, 2024

The Minister of Education Nicole Belloubet announced on Thursday to "suspend" messaging in all digital work spaces (ENT) of educational establishments, after threats of attacks against middle and high schools in recent days.

“People who send such messages will be prosecuted and will be punished”

“We are going to suspend messaging in the ENTs, because we must, in any case as a preventative measure, stop” these events, “until the spring holidays without doubt,” declared Nicole Belloubet on RTL. And this so that “we can reset our students’ accounts and further secure” access to ENT messaging. “People who send such messages will be prosecuted and will be sanctioned,” the minister said. “The courts are harsh on false bomb threats and this type of malicious messages.”

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For several days, dozens of establishments in Paris and the region, more than 150 in total in 20 academies according to the ministry, have been targeted by threats of attacks transmitted via the ENT. Complaints have been filed and investigations opened. Thursday afternoon, a meeting was held at the Ministry of Education on digital security in schools, to define “a shared roadmap aimed at better securing digital work spaces and school life software, in the short term. and medium term", according to rue de Grenelle.

The ENT is a digital space which serves as a link between teachers, students and parents. A 17-year-old minor was arrested and placed in police custody on Thursday in Malakoff in Hauts-de-Seine, in the investigation into hacking of the digital platforms of educational establishments (ENT), we learned from source close to the case and from the Paris prosecutor's office.