The attack took place around 11 a.m. local time (09:00 GMT), when the perpetrator – identified by Le Figaro newspaper as Mohamed Mogouchkov, a Chechen, born in Russia in 2003 and booked by the secret services for Islamist radicalism, entered the Gambetta secondary school in Arras and attacked several workers before being arrested.
A French teacher died with his throat slit and two were injured: a kitchen employee who is very serious and another teacher, also serious.
According to authorities, seven other people are also in police custody in connection with this event.
The French President, Emmanuel Macron, He indicated that another attack had also been neutralized this Friday and although he did not give details, he was referring to the arrest of another man who was seen armed with a knife in the vicinity of an institution after storming a mosque in the city of Limay to leave. , in the south of the Paris region.
Macron himself convened an emergency security meeting this afternoon at the Elysée, where the Prime Minister, Elizabeth Bornetogether with a number of important ministers in the fight against terrorism, such as those of Justice, Home Affairs and Foreign Affairs.
In the attack in Arras, several witnesses said that the perpetrator – who had been a student at the center – shouted: ‘Allah is good‘ in Arabic as he stabbed his victims.
Images recorded on mobile phones from the windows of the educational center show the author in the courtyard as several workers confront him.
One of the teachers who crossed paths with the killer later said that he realized the situation because the young Chechen started chasing him while asking him if he was a history teacher, which awakened in him the memory of Samuel Paty.
Macron, who immediately traveled to Arras with the interior and education ministers, praised the courage of teachers and workers, which allowed them to save “many lives.”
He also emphasized that the professor was “murdered in a cowardly and savage manner”, but that neither the country nor its citizens will ‘succumb to terror’.
The National Anti-Terrorist Public Prosecution Service (PNAT) took over the investigation. and has entrusted the coordination of the investigation to the Anti-Terrorist Subdirectorate of the Police (Sdat), which clearly expresses the attention this law has for Justice.
Police have made four arrests: the alleged perpetrator, his 16-year-old brother, arrested near another high school, and two other people whose details have not been released. The author comes from a Chechen family who arrived in France in 2009.
When the story of the author and his family became public, the attack took on a political tone, as the family was targeted for deportation in 2014 due to their Islamic radicalization, although this measure was ultimately not carried out by decision of the authorities. then Minister of the Interior, Manuel Valls, after pressure from various associations.
The father of the family was eventually deported years later and the rest of the family’s request for political asylum was rejected, but he still remained in France despite being in an irregular situation.
The author has been registered by the secret services since the beginning of this month as a radicalized and potentially dangerous element for homeland security. He was checked yesterday, but nothing suspicious was found.
A file to deport him was processed in 2021, but this did not proceed because he had arrived in France when he was not yet 13 years old, which is an obstacle to his deportation.
His older brother is currently in prison for two convictionsone for an attack project and one for advocating terrorism, after he was arrested in 2019 at the age of 17 as a member of a five-man cell that planned to kill police officers.
Source: El heraldo
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