The Judicial Police (PJ) identified several minors as the perpetrators of the threats that appeared on social networks regarding possible attacks on schools, police said on Thursday.
A source from the PJ told the Lusa agency that between five and seven minors have been identified as the perpetrators of threats on social networks and that he has already reported them to the commissions for the protection of children and young people and the family and minors Courts.
According to a press release from the PJ, the young people take responsibility for the publications, but are unaware of the scope and impact of their actions.
The PJ points out that no evidence has been collected of the radicalization or extremism of these young people.
According to the judiciary, in recent days, based on information sharing, namely at the headquarters of the anti-terrorism coordination unit, similar situations have been communicated in different parts of the country, some of which were referred by the PSP, with all reported cases being investigated by the judicial police.
The PJ also indicates that these situations have been determined to have occurred after publications on the social network Tik Tok, originating from abroad, refer to the Columbine massacre in the United States, which took place 24 years ago, but there is, however, no evidence that the threats intended to materialize were collected.
There have been several reports on social networks about possible attacks on schools one year after this massacre, and this sharing has led to some social unrest in educational institutions, among parents and students.
The PJ also mentions that everything leads to the belief that these are cases of mimicking a phenomenon that is happening in different parts of the world.
This Thursday morning, the PSP said in a statement that it is monitoring the situation and monitoring the functioning of educational institutions and the school population.
In that note, the police said they also received information about these threats through social networks, from several citizens who wanted to confirm that the authorities were aware of the matter.
The PSP’s national director also said this Thursday that the threats appearing on social networks regarding possible attacks on schools were “nothing more than a bad joke”, an example of “social network abuse”.
“It was nothing more than a joke in bad taste, like (the cases of) students who, in order not to go to the exams, passed on bomb threats. It is something similar,” Manuel Magina da Silva told journalists, in Porto, on the sidelines of an operation to combat drug trafficking in one of the city’s neighborhoods.
Manuel Magina da Silva recalled that the PSP, through the Safe School program, is always present in schools.
The threat of possible attacks on schools arises in connection with the Columbine massacre, which occurred on April 20, 1999 in the town of Littleton, Colorado, when two students raided Columbine High School, killing 12 students and a teacher. , and then commit suicide.
Source: DN
