Students and staff at the Gérard Filion Secondary School in Longueuil were confined to the premises on Thursday lunchtime due to a “potential threat” to the school facility.
Police were called to the scene at around 11:45 a.m. as a preventative measure, “in connection with possible threatening statements,” Longueuil police said, without giving further details.
At lunchtime, several police officers were near the school to carry out checks.
“We are in contact with the school to coordinate our intervention. For parents: The conditions of participation will be sent out shortly. “The Parent Information Hotline can be reached at 450-463-7100,” the police announced via their X account (formerly Twitter).
This is the third time in as many weeks that a high school in Longueuil has ordered the shelter-in-place of its students and staff.
On October 16, a major police operation took place at the André-Laurendeau high school in the Saint-Hubert sector, with potentially armed people being seen in the facility. In the end it was just a bad joke.
The next day there was another detention, this time at Jacques Rousseau Secondary School, because a “potentially threatening” person was seen near the school building. The operation ended with the arrest of a teenage girl.