Sixteen-Year-Old Computer Whiz Arrested for False Bomb Threat in Alsace High School

A sixteen-year-old teenager, renowned for his computer skills, was arrested in Montauban (Tarn-et-Garonne) suspected of having triggered a false bomb threat by email in a high school in Alsace.

A sixteen-year-old teenager, considered a “computer crack”, was arrested in Montauban, in the Tarn-et-Garonne department. The facts with which he is accused did not take place in Occitania, but more than 800 kilometers away, in Alsace. According to cybercrime experts, he was at the origin of a bomb threat launched via an e-mail sent on October 17 to the Lazare de Schwendi high school in Ingersheim, where 660 students had been urgently evacuated.

After extensive technical investigations, the teenager was identified as the alleged author of this hoax, reveals La Dépêche du Midi. On October 30, still in Occitanie, two minors aged 15 and 16 were also arrested for similar acts against several high schools in Haute-Garonne. They were brought before the Toulouse public prosecutor’s office, then before a children’s judge. They are being prosecuted for “false alerts with the aim of making people believe in the commission of dangerous destruction for people.”

“We cannot accept the idea of ​​hoaxes, we are four days from the assassination of Dominique Bernard and three years after the attack which cost the life of Samuel Paty, so each time we will file a complaint” indicated at France 3, Olivier Faron, rector of the Strasbourg academy.

Unlike these two cases, the Tarn-et-Garonne “hacker” was indicted before an investigating judge.

The charges against the teenager include the disclosure of false information intended to make people believe in dangerous destruction for people, fraudulent access to a data processing system (in this case, the box e -email from a third party), and the fraudulent maintenance of this system.

The minor, who spent 48 hours in police custody, was placed under judicial supervision with various restrictions, including the ban on leaving his home between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m., the ban on possessing weapons, and the obligation to follow the educational measures of the judicial protection of youth (PJJ).

The incident paralyzed Ingersheim High School and generated widespread media attention. This false bomb threat took place the day before a similar incident in a neighboring high school in Colmar.

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