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Two Laval high schools were locked down Tuesday after receiving threatening phone calls, police say. Both lockdowns were lifted around 2:30 p.m.
The lockdowns affected Odyssée-des-Jeunes secondary school in Laval’s Auteuil neighbourhood and Georges-Vanier secondary school in the St-Vincent-de-Paul neighbourhood.
Laval police say Odyssée-des-Jeunes received a threatening phone call at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday and Georges-Vanier received a similar call at 1:15 p.m. Both schools immediately went into lockdown following the phone calls.
The identity of the caller is unknown, a police spokesperson told The Gazette, and no arrests have been made. She declined to share what was said in the phone calls.
Both schools were under “preventive lockdowns,” the spokesperson said, meaning students and staff were required to stay in their classrooms until police had secured the school.
While the incidents were similar, police have opened two separate investigations, the spokesperson said. “We don’t want to make links” between the incidents at this point in the investigations, she said.
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