Europe 1 with AFP 10:50 a.m., April 4, 2024

New threats of attacks have emerged in many educational establishments through student digital work spaces, ENTs. The Minister of Education, Nicole Belloubet, is calling for strengthening the internal and external security of middle and high schools since around 400 establishments are concerned.  

After already a series of bomb threats that occurred in several establishments in the fall, middle and high schools in particular have once again been the target of new threats for two weeks. These threats of attacks, via the messaging of digital workspaces (ENT), concerned "around 400 establishments targeted out of around twenty academies", indicated Tuesday the Minister of Education Nicole Belloubet.

During a hearing in the Senate on Wednesday, Nicole Belloubet clarified that the "idea" of this interministerial meeting was to "raise awareness among prefects and rectors of the responsibility with the police for the external and internal security of educational institutions". "We are going to ask the prefects to bring together by zone with the local authorities concerned the security actors in schools, and to take all measures to put in place these anti-intrusion alarms, and elsewhere perimeter enclosures (a security device). alert, most of the time bright: editor's note) if necessary," she continued.

A mobile school force

She clarified what was covered by "the mobile school force", announced at the end of last week: this "force" is "made up of around twenty education personnel, which we would project in 24 or 48 hours on an establishment which would cross a major crisis and which would accompany it for 15 days, three weeks, the time necessary to calm the school climate.

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