the 17-year-old teenager, arrested in Malakoff on Thursday, indicted and placed in pre-trial detention

The 17-year-old teenager, arrested in Malakoff in Hauts-de-Seine on Thursday March 28, was indicted and placed in pre-trial detention on Saturday March 30, in accordance with the prosecution’s requisitions, franceinfo learned from a judicial source, after the threats of attack sent via ENTs (digital work spaces).

Placed in detention

At the end of his interrogation, the suspect was indicted for “violations of an automated personal data processing system implemented by the State committed by an organized gang (access, maintenance, and introduction of data in a fraudulent manner)”.

He is also being prosecuted for “death threat materialized in writing, image or other object – offense punishable by 3 years of imprisonment and a fine of 45,000 euros, disclosure of false information in order to make people believe in dangerous destruction, identity theft”. But also for “apology of terrorism by means of an online public communication service” and for “refusal to hand over to the judicial authorities the secret agreement for decrypting his phone”, indicated this judicial source.

No similar criminal record

“Schooled”, the 17 year old minor “did not have a criminal record of the same nature”indicated Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau, specifying that her prosecution centralized “now the attacks of the same nature in recent days are to the detriment of all ENTs” throughout France.

150 establishments targeted by threats

Since the middle of last week, more than 150 educational establishments located in twenty academies in total have been targeted by attack threats transmitted via ENT (Digital Work Spaces), according to a report Friday from the Ministry of Education national.