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” LMonday, 122 establishments will explode » : Here is an extract from the chilling message received by students, their parents and teachers at a college in Lille last Friday and Saturday. A few days earlier, establishments in the Ile-de-France region received similar emails, with a video of a beheading.
The academies of Amiens, Créteil, Lille, Paris and Versailles had been focused by threats of assault. With the identical working mode: it’s the digital work environments (ENT) which had been hacked to propagate these threats in Île-de-France and Hauts-de-France. Although round fifty institutions within the Paris area could be affected, the variety of center and excessive colleges affected within the academies of Lille and Amiens has not but been communicated.
What is an ENT?
The ENT or digital work atmosphere is a software that creates a hyperlink between college students, their mother and father and academics. It is, in accordance with the Ministry of National Education, “a place of exchange and collaboration between its users, and with other communities in relation to the school or establishment”.
Pronote, Educonnect, Monlycée.web… Different platforms are used relying on the areas and institutions. They all work on the identical precept. Each instructor and every household has an account on their ENT. Once recognized, college students can view their timetable and discover homework to do. Teachers can import their classes and different digital assets, in addition to register homework to be accomplished. Parents can view their youngsters's faculty outcomes, absences and late arrivals. Finally, the tutorial group and households can talk about on this house.
In the academies focused by the assaults, the digital workspaces have been closed, and their messaging has been deactivated till additional discover. A measure which is able to stop any additional transmission of threats. The ministry subsequently invitations mother and father, college students and academics to “communicate through other channels”.
“Specialized investigation services” deployed
Schools, center colleges and excessive colleges in these areas stay open, however safety measures have been taken across the institutions. Police and gendarmerie officers had been notably mobilized, specifies the Northern Prefecture. The ministry presents “psychological support to all children or adults who have watched the shocking videos against their will”.
Following an interministerial assembly on the safety of instructional institutions, Gabriel Attal declared final Thursday that “specialized investigation services” had been deployed to determine the supply of those threats. And added: “They think they remain anonymous, but we track them. They think they are safe, but we sanction them. Several dozen perpetrators of these threats, which occurred in recent months, have already been brought to justice.”
https://www.lepoint.fr/societe/menaces-terroristes-dans-les-etablissements-scolaires-que-sont-les-ent-25-03-2024-2555875_23.php