One year to the day after his assassination by a radicalized Islamist ex-student, Arras paid tribute on Sunday to Professor Dominique Bernard, during a ceremony focused on the arts in the presence of several ministers and his relatives. The ceremony began at 11:00 a.m., the time at which Dominique Bernard, 57, was killed with several stab wounds 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[il voulait]“and duty”be careful“, reports his wife, Isabelle Bernard, in a rare interview with Le Monde published on Saturday. “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 professor, stabbed at the entrance to the Gambetta-Carnot school campus where he taught. Designed with the teacher’s loved ones 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, “Paradise Children”, according to the forecast.
A minute of silence will be observed on Monday in middle and high schools across France in tribute to Dominique Bernard and Samuel Paty, a history and geography teacher also murdered by a young radicalized Islamist on October 16, 2020, in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines) .
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