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Several high schools were the target at the beginning of the week of threatening or bomb threat messages, causing the evacuation of the schools concerned. In Seine-Maritime, six schools were evacuated following "messages of threats of commission of attacks" sent "in the morning of this Tuesday, by email to the management of the establishments".

Several schools were evacuated Tuesday in Seine-Maritime, Seine-Saint-Denis, Hautes-Pyrénées and Yvelines following threats of attacks, we learned from the prefectures concerned and the police. In Seine-Maritime, six schools were evacuated following "messages of threats of commission of attacks" sent "in the morning of Tuesday, by email to the management of the establishments," said the prefecture in a statement. These are the Grieu high school in Rouen, the Gustave-Flaubert high school in Rouen, the Fontenelle college in Rouen, the Marcel-Sembat high school in Sotteville-lès-Rouen, the Fernand-Léger high school in Grand-Couronne and the CFA Simone-Veil in Rouen.

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Several high schools evacuated

"No threat has been confirmed at this stage. However, it was decided, in close collaboration between the rectorate of Normandy and the direction of the departmental services of the National Education of Seine-Maritime, to evacuate the schools concerned, in order to allow the national police to initiate a protocol of removal of doubt, "added the prefecture. An investigation has been opened by the prosecutor of the Republic of Rouen, she said. In Seine-Saint-Denis, about a thousand students from the Paul-Eluard high school in Saint-Denis were evacuated Tuesday morning after receiving a malicious email reporting a threat, the prefecture of Seine-Saint-Denis told AFP.

The demining service went to the site to screen the school. The protocol for removing doubts ended around 11:30 a.m. and the students were reinstated in the process, she added. In Tarbes (Hautes-Pyrénées), some 1,400 students from the Marie-Curie high school were evacuated and grouped in the Maurice-Trélut stadium following an email threatening attack addressed to the principal, we learned from the prefecture.

Deminers, who came from the Landes with dogs specialized in the detection of explosives, inspected the school Tuesday afternoon. In the Yvelines, the Charles-de-Gaulle high school in Poissy was also being evacuated Tuesday afternoon after a bomb threat, a police source told AFP.