2023-10-13 19:00:59
His name is Mohamed Mogouchkov and it turned out to be an Islamist booked by the police in France. This is the profile of the young man who murdered Professor Dominique Bernard, 50, this Friday in a town in northern France. The attacker, who used a knife to commit the crime, also left two injured people who have been admitted to the Arras hospital, one of them between life and death. They are the deputy director and another teacher of the Gambetta-Carnot public institute, in the town of Arras, with 40,000 inhabitants.
The killer, arrested by police after being subdued with a Taser, was born in 2003 and has lived in France since 2007. Although he was initially reported to be Chechen, police have confirmed that he is actually Ingush. Ingushetia borders Chechnya and shares a common history, language and culture. These two republics are part of the Russian Federation.
Apparently he is a former student of the school and is registered on the list of suspects for the prevention of terrorist radicalization. Le Monde assures that the young man was the subject of active surveillance by the DGSI. Just yesterday, Thursday, the arrested person had been subjected to a police check. It is not yet clear whether the murder has anything to do with the Gaza conflict. It must be remembered that France is the third country with the most Jews and that it is home to a large Muslim population.
According to Le Monde, in March 2021 he submitted an asylum application, but it was rejected. The detainee challenged this decision and filed an appeal before the National Asylum Court in April 2021, also rejected by the institution. The French newspaper claims that since Mohammed M. entered France before the age of 13, he could not be expelled due to the protection he enjoys. The reform of France’s immigration law seeks precisely to eliminate this rule that prevents the expulsion of a person who entered France before the age of 13.
One of his brothers was arrested in 2019 in Strasbourg when he was 17 years old because he was part of a cell of five radical Islamists, sympathizers of the Islamic State, who planned to kill police officers. This Friday, a younger brother of the detainee was arrested near the Saint Exupéry high school in Arras shortly after the attack, as well as two other people.
Another teacher at that institute, Martin Doussau, told BFMTV that he crossed paths with the murderer without knowing what was happening, and that he ran away when he noticed that he was chasing him and that he asked him if he was a history teacher.
From there and from the memory of what happened in another school where a history teacher was murdered by a Chechen terrorist, his interpretation is that “he intended to kill a history teacher.” On October 16, 2020, Professor Samuel Paty was murdered, near the school where he taught in Conflans Sainte Honorine, in the Paris region, by a Chechen fundamentalist terrorist who had taken refuge with his family in France. .
“We are in shock. A few days before the anniversary of Samuel Paty’s death, we are devastated. The school is once again a target, because it embodies the values of the Republic: freedom, equality and fraternity,” Agnès Andersen, general secretary of the union of school leaders ID-FO, reacted to the AFP agency.
The President of France, Emmanuel Macron, who went to the scene, assured that “the police were able to intervene four minutes after the call and thanks to the speed of their reaction and the great professionalism of our police officers, we were able to without a doubt avoiding an even more serious death toll.” Macron also praised the “bravery” of the murdered professor because thanks to his intervention “he saved other lives.”
Another stabbing attempt in Paris
The president also revealed that an attempted attack in the Paris region has been neutralized, after the attack on the institute in the city of Arras. “An intervention today made it possible to thwart another attempt” at an attack, Macron explained in a brief statement, without giving further details.
The French press reported today that a man armed with a kitchen knife was arrested in the vicinity of an institute as he left a mosque in the town of Limay, in the Yvelines department, in the metropolitan area of Paris.
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