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PARIS: A high school in France was closed for a second day in a row on Tuesday due to death threats against teachers, though prosecutors say there is no terrorist motive behind them. The Clermont-Ferrand public prosecutor said that the threats at the school in Riom were instead made out of a desire to create fear and disrupt school activities. Three 15-year-olds have been taken into police custody, the prosecutor added. The school in central France has about 1,000 students, who are learning remotely until the school reopens, according to the French news agency AFP and local broadcaster France Bleu. France was shaken by the beheading of a teacher in suburban Paris in October after he had faced threats for showing a controversial caricature of the Muslim prophet Mohammed.
There has been criticism in France that no protective measures were put in place due to threats made against the school.
Prosecutors did not find a link between a parent who had mobilized a campaign against the teacher online over the caricature and the alleged attacker, who was killed by police.
There has been criticism in France that no protective measures were put in place due to threats made against the school.
Prosecutors did not find a link between a parent who had mobilized a campaign against the teacher online over the caricature and the alleged attacker, who was killed by police.
