Several schools were evacuated on Tuesday September 19 in Seine-Maritime, Seine-Saint-Denis, Hautes-Pyrénées and Yvelines following threats of attacks, Agence France-Presse learned (AFP ) with the prefectures concerned and the police.
In Seine-Maritime, six schools were evacuated because of “messages threatening to commit attacks” sent “on the morning of this Tuesday, by email to the management of the establishments,” the prefecture said in a press release. These are the Grieu trades 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 center training for Simone-Veil apprentices in Rouen.
“No threat has at this stage been confirmed. However, it was decided in close collaboration between the Normandy rectorate and the management of the departmental national education services of Seine-Maritime to evacuate the educational establishments concerned, in order to allow the national police to initiate a protocol of removal of doubt,” added the prefecture. An investigation was opened by the Rouen public prosecutor, she said.
A thousand students evacuated
In Seine-Saint-Denis, around a thousand students from the Paul-Eluard high school in Saint-Denis were evacuated Tuesday morning after receiving a malicious email reporting a threat, said the Seine-Saint-Denis prefecture. Denis to AFP. The demining service went to the site to sift through the high school. The doubt clearance protocol ended around 11:30 a.m. and the students were immediately reinstated, she added.
In Tarbes (Hautes-Pyrénées), some 1,400 students from the Marie-Curie high school were evacuated and regrouped in the Maurice-Trélut stadium following an email threatening an attack addressed to the principal, we learned with the prefecture. Minesweepers, who came from the Landes with dogs specialized in detecting explosives, inspected the high school on Tuesday afternoon. In Yvelines, the Charles-de-Gaulle high school in Poissy was also being evacuated on Tuesday afternoon due to a bomb threat, a police source confirmed to AFP.