The professor who was stabbed to death in front of a school in Aras was buried under strict security measures

With emotion but at the same time strict security measures, the city of Aras in the north France paid his last respects today, Thursday (19/10) to Professor Dominique Bernard, who stabbed to death in front of the high school taught by a former student flagged for Islamic radicalization.

His funeral 57-year-old professor of French, who was married to a teacher and the father of three now grown-up daughters, was held this morning in the cathedral of Arras, in the presence of French President Emmanuel Macron, his wife Brigitte and Education Minister Gabriel Attal.

The ceremony, which was officiated by the Bishop of Arras, Olivier Lemborne, was broadcast on a giant screen in the city’s Heroes Square, under tight security.

Classes were canceled this morning at Gambetta-Carnot High School, where the attack took place, so staff and students could attend the funeral.

Dominique Bernard was today posthumously made a knight of the Legion of Honor, a distinction that is France’s most important.

His death on October 13, almost exactly three years after the murder in the Paris region of professor Samuel Paty by a radicalized youth, shocked the country, particularly among educators.

France was put on high alert for attacks the same night as the attack, carried out by a 20-year-old radicalized Russian, Mohammed Moguskov, who, according to the Athens News Agency, said he belonged to the Islamic State jihadist group.

The attacker was charged with murder in connection with a terrorist operation and was remanded in custody on Tuesday night. His 16-year-old brother is charged with accessory after the fact and a 15-year-old cousin with willful failure to prevent the crime.

He entered the school with two knives and killed Dominique Bernard

Mohamed Moguskov had caused panic at the school on the morning of October 13 when he arrived there holding two knives and killed Dominique Bernardwhile subsequently injuring three other adults, two of them seriously, before being arrested.

Moguskov had a file for radicalization and had been monitored by the Directorate-General for Internal Security (DGSI) “since the end of July,” according to Interior Minister Gerald Darmanen, because of his ties to his brother, who is jailed for his involvement in an attack plan in Paris targeting the presidential palace of the Elysées, and with his father, who also has a file on the French security services. The latter, who was deported in 2018, is “very likely” in Georgia, according to a police source.

Source: News Beast

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