In the context of violence in and outside of schools, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal announced on March 21 the holding of this meeting on the security of “150 to 200” facilities identified as “particularly at risk”. He vowed to “clear the pavements around” in the face of “gangs” and “deals”.
Intrusion alarms
After a series of bomb threats that appeared in several facilities in the fall, especially high schools and universities are once again the target of new threats for two weeks. Those threats of digital workspace (ENT) messaging attacks involved “around 400 targeted devices from around twenty academies”, the education minister said on Tuesday.
During Wednesday’s hearing in the Senate, Nicole Belloubet clarified that the “idea” of this inter-ministerial meeting was “to raise the awareness of prefects and rectors about the responsibility of the police for the external and internal security of educational institutions”.
“We will ask the prefects to gather with the local authorities concerned, according to the zones, the security officers in the schools and to take all measures to introduce these intrusion alarms and perimeter fences elsewhere (editor’s note: device alert , mostly bright) if necessary, ” she continued.
“Unacceptable breach of security”
She clarified what the “mobile school force” announced at the end of last week includes: this “force” “consists of approximately twenty teaching staff that we would project in 24 or 48 hours to a facility that would go beyond a major crisis and that would accompany it 15 days, three weeks, i.e. the time necessary to calm the school climate.
In a press release published on Wednesday evening, after a multilateral meeting of teachers’ unions at the Ministry of Education dedicated to school safety, the Šnalc trade union pointed out the “essential importance of managing and monitoring school gates and gates in kindergartens and primary schools”.