“A lot of resources deployed for not much.” A firefighter mobilized at the Cassini high school in Clermont this Thursday, January 23 in the afternoon, sums up the operation. Namely a bomb threat triggered in the establishment.
“There was a fire alarm around 2 p.m.,” explains a student after the incident. “We were distributed to several places in the high school following classes.” Some of the high school students gathered in the high school parking lot.
A written threat found in the establishment
Then, the alert becomes clearer. This is indeed a bomb threat. “We found a document saying there was a bomb,” said an agent involved in the search operation. “Apparently, it was written in Arabic and that a bomb was going to explode around 3 p.m.,” adds a high school student.
The decision was then made to confine the students to the Alex-Seghers sports complex. And also to notify parents via the digital workspace.
The alert lifted around 4 p.m.
Finally, after a search of the premises, the authorities lifted the alert around 4 p.m. The deminers did not make the trip. The 1,500 students were able to return to the premises or return home.
This is the second bomb threat – and, fortunately, second false alarm – in the space of a few months in Clermont. On November 15, 2024, the city center was cordoned off and evacuated. A person, since arrested, had threatened to detonate a bomb in a bank near city hall.
