One year to the day later his assassination by a radicalized Islamist ex-student, Arras pays tribute on Sunday to professor Dominique Bernardduring a ceremony focused on the arts in the presence of several ministers and his relatives.
The ceremony begins at 11 a.m., the time Dominique Bernard, 57, was killed of several stabbings by Mohammed Mogouchkov, a Russian from Ingushetia, then aged 20.
At the time when he had him as a student in college, the French teacher lamented not being able to “say everything that[il voulait] » and having to “be careful”, reports his wife, Isabelle Bernardin a rare interview with Le Monde published on Saturday October 12, 2024. “The management team did everything to point out the dangerous character of this boy,” she assures.
The ceremony will be held on the Place des Héros in Arras (Pas-de-Calais), at the same place where several thousand people gathered two days after the assassination of the professorstabbed at the entrance to the Gambetta-Carnot school complex where he taught.
Designed with those close to the teacher as a “cultural memorial sequence”, according to the mayor of Arras Frédéric Leturque, the ceremony must include different artistic performances, from an interpretation of Mozart’s K.285 quartet to that of a song by Damien Saez, “Les enfants paradis”according to the forecast.
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