Overview

• Students viewed Snapchat messages on Sunday evening that threatened attacks at a comprehensive and a secondary school in Velbert and they alerted parents who contacted police.
• Both schools initially announced distance learning as a precaution following the reports of the posts.
• Investigators used OSINT methods to trace the messages and they located a 14-year-old suspected of sending them.
• Officers said they saw no seriousness behind the threat and classes at the two schools are proceeding as normal.
• The teenager was questioned and released to go home, and police opened proceedings for disturbing the public peace.