Assassinated on October 13, 2023 in Arras by his former student Mohammed Mogouchkov, Dominique Bernard had noticed his “dangerous character” from middle school and had to “be careful” about what he said, his widow reported this Saturday, October 12 in “Le World” and “La Voix du Nord”
Her husband had raised the alarm as soon as this student went to college, says Isabelle Bernard. Assassinated on October 13, 2023 in Arras by Mohammed Mogouchkov, Dominique Bernard had noticed the “dangerous character” of his former student from college, reports his widow this Saturday, October 12 in an interview given to the newspapers The World et The Voice of the North. The teacher even had to “be careful» to what he said.
“When Mohammed Mogouchkov was a middle school student and Dominique had him in class, the management team did everything to point out the dangerous character of this boy,” assures Isabelle Bernard on a daily basis, in her first media appearance since her husband’s funeral. Faced with this student, “I can’t say everything I want, I have to be careful”, had regretted the French teacher, his wife remembers today. “Another time in the year, he confided to me: “I still said that I was a free person”».
In the eyes of this English teacher, “everyone did their job”, “we cannot blame anything” to National Education. “The police knew he intended to act but did not know when,” she emphasizes. Before adding: “Someone who is determined to kill will kill.”
Dominique Bernard “very much appreciated” Mohammed Mogouchkov’s brother
On Friday October 13, 2023, at 11 a.m., Dominique Bernard was fatally stabbed by Mohammed Mogouchkov, a Russian then aged 20, at the entrance to the Gambetta-Carnot school complex where he taught. Another teacher and two officers were also injured.
Isabelle Bernard remembers her husband’s laudatory comments on two other children of the Mogouchkov siblings, his sister, “very talented”, and his big brother Movsar, “intelligent, very fine”, that Dominique Bernard “appreciated it very much”. He is currently incarcerated for not having denounced a planned attack near the Elysée. Originally from the Caucasian Republic of Ingushetia, the assassin of Professor Dominique Bernard did not reveal any jihadist tendencies until 2021, although he had already been identified in several of his relatives.
In an interview with The Voice of the Northalso published this Saturday, Isabelle Bernard emphasizes that it is “out of the question” that there be a political recovery of the tribute which will be paid to her husband on Sunday on the Place des Héros in Arras, in the presence of several members of the government. The ceremony, focused on the arts, will pay tribute to “all victims of terrorism”she explains. Isabelle Bernard also created a literary prize, open for its first edition to students in 4th, 3rd and 2nd grades of Arrageois. It is named after her husband and “humanist values”.
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