A teacher was stabbed to death at a school in northern France by a radicalised former pupil in what Emmanuel Macron, the French President, called a case of barbaric “Islamist terrorism”.
French literature teacher Dominique Bernard was killed trying to “protect” pupils at City School Gambetta-Carnot in Arras and in doing so “saved many lives”, said Mr Macron.
He added that another attack at a school elsewhere in France had been foiled.
A security guard and sports teacher were also seriously injured in the attack, in which the assailant reportedly shouted “Allahu Akbar” – God is great in Arabic. No pupils were hurt.
The suspect, 20, identified as Mohammed Mogouchkov, is reportedly of Russian nationality and had been under “active” surveillance, including by being “bugged” and trailed by the DGSI, France’s domestic intelligence service.
Checks were carried out on the suspect the day before the murder and he had been placed on a terror watch list just 11 days before the attack, according to reports.
However, agents found no evidence he was about to act.
A former member of staff at the school said the suspect had been suspended when he was a pupil for attacking a teacher, and that colleagues were “afraid to turn their backs on him”.
The murder came almost three years to the day after Samuel Paty, another secondary school teacher, was killed and beheaded in a Paris suburb by an 18-year-old Islamic terrorist of Chechen origin.
Mr Paty was slain on Oct 16 2020, after a student alleged he had shown his pupils Charlie Hebdo’s 2012 cartoons depicting the Islamic prophet Muhammed during a class on freedom of expression.
Prosecutors have launched an anti-terror investigation into Friday’s killing.
While no motive was given, Mr Macron said: “Once again a school has been struck by the barbarity of Islamist terrorism”.
The attack also comes with tensions rising in France, which has Europe’s largest Jewish and Muslim communities, after Saturday’s attack by Hamas on Israel.
Heartbreaking 💔 He’s a hero for saving other students 🙏🏻 extremists everywhere must be irradicated !
an undeserved fate for hero like this. the ultimate goal of fighting terrorism shouldnt be sacrificing the good ones to show how tolerant you are, but let the terrorist scums pay and die for their atrocities
From Journalists to Cartoonists and now Teachers…
If school teachers and school children are not safe, our society and countries futures will be damaged.
There needs to be a stop to this violence.
Tf is happening in France recently, has there been some flash point I’ve missed or something?
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**From The Telegraph’s Henry Samuel in Paris:**
A teacher was stabbed to death at a school in northern France by a radicalised former pupil in what Emmanuel Macron, the French President, called a case of barbaric “Islamist terrorism”.
French literature teacher Dominique Bernard was killed trying to “protect” pupils at City School Gambetta-Carnot in Arras and in doing so “saved many lives”, said Mr Macron.
He added that another attack at a school elsewhere in France had been foiled.
A security guard and sports teacher were also seriously injured in the attack, in which the assailant reportedly shouted “Allahu Akbar” – God is great in Arabic. No pupils were hurt.
The suspect, 20, identified as Mohammed Mogouchkov, is reportedly of Russian nationality and had been under “active” surveillance, including by being “bugged” and trailed by the DGSI, France’s domestic intelligence service.
Checks were carried out on the suspect the day before the murder and he had been placed on a terror watch list just 11 days before the attack, according to reports.
However, agents found no evidence he was about to act.
A former member of staff at the school said the suspect had been suspended when he was a pupil for attacking a teacher, and that colleagues were “afraid to turn their backs on him”.
The murder came almost three years to the day after Samuel Paty, another secondary school teacher, was killed and beheaded in a Paris suburb by an 18-year-old Islamic terrorist of Chechen origin.
Mr Paty was slain on Oct 16 2020, after a student alleged he had shown his pupils Charlie Hebdo’s 2012 cartoons depicting the Islamic prophet Muhammed during a class on freedom of expression.
Prosecutors have launched an anti-terror investigation into Friday’s killing.
While no motive was given, Mr Macron said: “Once again a school has been struck by the barbarity of Islamist terrorism”.
The attack also comes with tensions rising in France, which has Europe’s largest Jewish and Muslim communities, after Saturday’s attack by Hamas on Israel.
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Heartbreaking 💔 He’s a hero for saving other students 🙏🏻 extremists everywhere must be irradicated !
an undeserved fate for hero like this. the ultimate goal of fighting terrorism shouldnt be sacrificing the good ones to show how tolerant you are, but let the terrorist scums pay and die for their atrocities
From Journalists to Cartoonists and now Teachers…
If school teachers and school children are not safe, our society and countries futures will be damaged.
There needs to be a stop to this violence.
Tf is happening in France recently, has there been some flash point I’ve missed or something?