France secures schools over teacher’s terrorist murder

He French Minister of Education, Gabriel Attal, has given instructions for the immediate strengthening of school security following this morning’s terrorist murder of a teacher at a high school in Arras by a young Chechen who was under the surveillance of the secret services.

Attal made the request in a message released by his department “All Sizes” needed to “enhance the security of all schools” in the country after the attack, in which State Counter-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office (PNAT).

Since last Saturday, when Hamas’ terrorist offensive on Israeli territory began, France has stepped up its security measures in the country’s 500 synagogues and Jewish schools.

It remains to be seen what the generalization of the device means to all schools after the attack by a 20-year-old young man at the Gambetta high school in the city of Arras (north), where he was a student, where he killed a French teacher with a knife and wounded two others.

The attacker, who shouted “Allah is the greatest” it is in arabic Mohamed Mogouchkov, A Chechen born in Russia in 2003 who is accused by the secret services of Islamist radicalism, according to Le Figaro. He is of Russian nationality, arrived in France in 2007, and has been under surveillance since this summer.

The police quickly arrested him, as one teacher told the television channel BFMTV. To do this, the agents paralyzed him with an electric shock.

The murdered teacher, whose carotid artery was cut by the attacker, is Dominique Bernard, about fifty years old, according to La Voix du Nord, which adds that the two wounded, who were admitted to the hospital in Arras, one of them is alive and one is dead, they are the deputy director and another teacher.

The killer’s brother, who was also under the radar of the secret services, was arrested near the Saint Exupéry high school in Arras shortly after the attack that led to the closure of the students of the Gambetta institute, but also other centers. city schoolchildren.

Another teacher at that institute, Martin Doussau, told BFMTV that he crossed paths with the killer 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 professor.

From there and from the memory of what happened in another school where a Chechen terrorist killed a history teacher, his interpretation is that he “intended to kill the history teacher”.

On October 16, 2020, Professor Samuel Paty was killed near the school where he taught in Conflans Sainte Honorine, in the Paris region, by a Chechen fundamentalist terrorist who took refuge in France with his family.