Parents, students shaken after Montreal-area school closed Thursday following threats – Montreal | 24CA News

Montreal police had been stationed exterior Macdonald High School in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue for a lot of Thursday morning, after what college authorities say was a menace that concerned the college.

“It was considered serious enough to contact the police who arrived quickly on the scene,” said Darren Becker, spokesperson for the Lester B. Pearson School Board (LBPSB) which oversees the establishment.

He refused to present any particulars however stated they noticed the web publish at round 8 a.m. Thursday morning, then determined to shut the constructing out of precaution as college students had been on their technique to college.

“So police officers came at the school and met several witnesses and staff at the school,” defined Montreal police spokesperson Const. Jeanne Drouin.

According to her, investigators say the menace was unfounded however gave no extra particulars.

Still, the incident has some individuals nervous.

Some mother and father instructed Global News that college students started listening to rumours Wednesday afternoon about the potential for a deliberate college capturing Thursday.

Then a type of college students who noticed on-line posts round 9 a.m. Thursday morning referred to as police.

They don’t need to be recognized out of worry of being bullied and instructed Global News what they noticed was disturbing.

“The guns and how he’s just doing this to get attention and stuff,” stated the scholar.

The photographs, posted to the social community Snapchat, are of packets of gum with what appears to be like like a firearm within the background, in addition to messages referring to a faculty capturing.

There’s additionally a message saying that the posts are a joke however the scholar who Global News spoke to isn’t so positive.

“I just think he’s lying because I don’t like trust him,” they said.  “That’s for sure.”

“It’s not something to joke about, because if somebody says that, next time I won’t believe anybody.”

Typhanie-Erinne Tobin, a mother or father with a baby at Macdonald, agrees.

“It’s disruptive to the education, it’s disruptive to the kids, to their well-being,” she identified.

Still, police say if anybody sees or hears something, irrespective of how minor it seems to be, to contact them.

The college reopens Friday and faculty board officers say assist is accessible for anybody who is perhaps disturbed by what occurred.