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French schools sent threatening messages and beheading videos, says ministry

A pupil enters the Edouard Herriot secondary school, where a student threatened the school's principal with a knife, on the sidelines of a visit by France's minister for Education and Youth, in Chenove, central France, on March 18, 2024. © Arnaud Finistre, AFP

At least 30 schools in the Paris region have this week received threatening messages accompanied by "shocking" footage of beheadings, the education ministry said on Thursday. 

The establishments – mainly secondary schools – have received "serious threats" containing "justification of and incitement to terrorism," a representative of the education ministry told AFP.

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