2023-10-15 05:30:13
Students and parents wait behind the police cordon, Saturday October 14 in the morning. The passage at the entrance to the Gambetta-Carnot school complex has been blocked for several minutes while awaiting the exit of the Minister of National Education, Gabriel Attal, who returned on site after the assassination, Friday, of Dominique Bernard, teacher of letters in this school in Arras. So the police offer to collect the bouquets and place them themselves in front of the entrance. Only Rosalie, in 6th grade at school, finally has the right to pass. The young girl walks to the very spot where the teacher was stabbed twenty-four hours earlier, surrounded by police officers loaded with flowers and loaded with their assault rifles. Then Rosalie returns to her mother’s arms and silently observes the pile of sheaves, which will have continued to increase all day.
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The emotion could be read on all the faces of the people who came to worship this morning in front of the establishment, which was open, but where classes had been canceled. A former student of this high school, Claudia Cristiano, 55, has the impression of living ” a bad dream “. Chloe, 14 years old, “still don’t realize what happened”. The day before, this second grade student took refuge in a classroom to escape the terrorist attack. Next to her, her mother Sandrine (the people cited by their first name requested anonymity) seems more marked. She can’t hold back a few tears. “We were scared. We heard everything and anything that there were injured students. I knew my daughter had nothing but we are afraid for the other children”, she testifies. As an aside, she worries about her daughter’s silence: “For the moment, she’s not saying anything, I think she’s still in shock. But it’s definitely going to come out at some point. »
Several teachers came to pay tribute to their colleague, like Philippe Lourdel, mathematics teacher, who greeted “a close friend and a literature enthusiast who never counted his hours”. Sylvie, economics and law teacher at the Guy-Mollet high school in Arras, did not know Dominique Bernard but cries “a member of our family who died”. Very moved, she dreads returning to class in front of her students on Monday. “We had to pay tribute to Samuel Paty, whose portrait is displayed in the teachers’ room. It’s terrible to think that this will probably no longer be the only photo displayed”she whispers, a bouquet of yellow flowers in her hand.
Residents of Arras came to pay their respects in front of the Gambetta high school the day after the assassination of French teacher Dominique Bernard, in Arras, October 14, 2023. ANOUK DESURY FOR “THE WORLD”
“It’s a wound that will never heal”
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