The prosecution asked for the youth to be taken into custody “at school” and with no “criminal history of the same nature”, Laure Beccuau said, adding that “his computer equipment (has) been seized and will be used by investigative services”.
The minor was arrested on Thursday morning by officers from the Central Office for Combating Cybercrime (Ofac) of the judicial police and placed in a police cell.
Focused on more than 150 establishments
On Friday, a judicial investigation was opened for violations of the state’s automated personal data system by an organized gang, threats of death materialized in writing, images or other objects, disclosing false information to believe in dangerous destruction, identity theft, advocating terrorism through a public online communication service and refusing hand over your phone’s passcodes to judicial authorities, is detailed in the press release.
Since the middle of last week, according to the Ministry of National Education, more than 150 educational facilities located in a total of twenty academies have been targeted by attacks transmitted through ORL (Digital Work Spaces).
The cybercrime section of the Paris Public Prosecutor’s Office (J3) has opened three proceedings “relating to cyber attacks affecting secondary schools in Ile-de-France, universities in Ile-de-France and other facilities throughout the territory”, it recalls in your statement. press release by Laura Beccuau. “The Paris prosecutor’s office is now centralizing attacks of the same nature in recent days at the expense of all ORLs, which the territorially competent public prosecutors are asked to get rid of,” noted the prosecutor. “The initial elements of the investigation have enabled cross-checking, the three cases have now been linked and referred to Ofac,” she clarified.
A 16-year-old student in police custody in Bordeaux
Education Minister Nicole Belloubet announced the suspension of ORL messaging on Thursday. On a trip to Bordeaux this Friday, she announced that a national “mobile school force” had been created at the start of the next school year, which could be sent to schools in case of “difficulties”.