While awaiting their judgment, they are subject to a curfew between 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m., and will have to “carry out a reparation measure entrusted to the judicial protection of youth (PJJ)”, specified the prosecutor Brice Partouche in a press release.
After their presentation to a public prosecutor and a children’s judge, they were summoned to court for “disclosure of false information in such a way as to make people believe in dangerous destruction” and “death threats”, the facts having been committed between April 19 and May 14.
The two accused were educated at the establishment, the Saint-Exupéry high school in Fameck. They “used an Instagram account to contact high school students and announce false bomb threats,” explains the magistrate. “Several” bomb threats led to the evacuation of the high school in the first semester.
They had “used anonymization tools, such as VPNs, and had good computer knowledge,” notes Mr. Partouche, but “the research section of Metz and the departmental gendarmerie company of Thionville managed to trace the origin messages”.
“The national gendarmerie estimates its damage at 20,000 euros” with “evacuation costs, the intervention of the police, deminers and their dogs,” Mr. Partouche further clarified.
The two teenagers face three years of imprisonment and a fine of 45,000 euros. The prosecutor also “recalled and underlined that all false alarms will give rise to systematic investigations using all the advanced digital techniques available to judicial police officers”, particularly during this examination period.
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