Basel: School shooting threat – a Tiktok challenge?

Update followsWasgenring and Vosges affected

Threat of amok at Basel school – “no acute danger”

As in other cantons, there was also such a threat in a Basel secondary school. This triggered a police operation on Monday.

Published today at 10:57 am

The Basel-Stadt cantonal police were present on Monday morning in front of the Vosges secondary school, which is located right next to the St. Johann primary school (on the right in the picture). The reason for this is a shooting threat from last week.

Photo: Nicole Pont

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When a parent accompanied his child to St. Johann primary school early on Monday morning, he discovered three police officers from the Basel-Stadt cantonal police on the school grounds. One of them is armed, as the father reports to this editorial team.

At around 8:30 a.m. he finally found out why the police were present: As the school management of the St. Johann primary school wrote in a message to parents, a shooting threat was discovered in a toilet at the Wasgenring secondary school last week.

The threat also affects the Vosges secondary school, which is located on the same site as the St. Johann primary school. “We are taking this situation very seriously and have immediately taken all the necessary steps to ensure the safety of the children and all employees,” writes the school management of the St. Johann primary school.

Classes should take place normally

For this reason, the elementary school management bypassed it, notified the cantonal police and “carried out a risk analysis in close cooperation.” As part of this, it was determined that there was no acute danger.

Nonetheless, everyone would continue to monitor the situation carefully over the next few days. In order to increase security at the two schools, a security system was set up with the cantonal police. Classes take place normally.

The background could be a Tiktok challenge

The communication from the school management suggests that this is also the case in this case Tiktok challenge could act. In Switzerland, several school shooting threats have already been reported, each with a corresponding date posted on the toilets.

The Aargau cantonal police informed about this several such casesin Bremgarten, Suhr and Lenzburg first last week. On Friday, the Solothurn cantonal police reported a threat of a shooting. Two schoolgirls admitted to having put up the lettering, and the police assume that this case was also a “joke” as part of the Tiktok challenge. In Horgen In the canton of Zurich, students stayed away from class because of such a threat.

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