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De­spite as­sur­ances from Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der that an ar­rest was im­mi­nent, fear con­tin­ues to grip staff at Rio Claro East Sec­ondary School, as po­lice con­firm no sus­pect has yet been de­tained or ques­tioned in con­nec­tion with vi­o­lent threats made against teach­ers, stu­dent and their fam­i­lies.

The threats first sur­faced in No­vem­ber, when mes­sages cir­cu­lat­ed on­line ac­cus­ing teach­ers of racist be­hav­iour. In Jan­u­ary, ad­di­tion­al mes­sages ap­peared on plat­forms in­clud­ing What­sApp and Tik­Tok. One post re­port­ed­ly in­clud­ed a pho­to­graph of a firearm and threat­ened harm to teach­ers’ fam­i­lies, while oth­ers ref­er­enced an im­pend­ing at­tack and a teacher’s ve­hi­cle.

East­ern Di­vi­sion po­lice said yes­ter­day the mat­ter re­mains un­der ac­tive in­ves­ti­ga­tion, but ac­knowl­edged that no sus­pect has been ap­proached.