Teacher killed in knife attack at French school was protecting pupils and ‘saved many lives’

From the Telegraph

A teacher was stabbed to death at a school in northern France by a radicalised former pupil in what Emmanuel Macron, the French President, called a case of barbaric “Islamist terrorism”.

Gérald Darmanin, France’s interior minister,  said there was a link between the attack and the war in Israel

Dominique Bernard, a French literature teacher, was killed trying to “protect” pupils at City School Gambetta-Carnot in Arras and in doing so “saved many lives”, said Mr Macron.

He added that another attack at a school elsewhere in France had been foiled.

A security guard and sports teacher were also seriously injured in the attack, in which the assailant reportedly shouted “Allahu Akbar” – God is great in Arabic. No pupils were hurt.

The suspect, 20, identified as Mohammed Mogouchkov, is reportedly of Russian nationality and had been under “active” surveillance, including by being “bugged” and trailed by the DGSI, France’s domestic intelligence service.

Checks were carried out on the suspect the day before the murder and he had been placed on a terror watch list just 11 days before the attack, according to reports. . . A former member of staff at the school said the suspect had been suspended when he was a pupil for attacking a teacher, and that colleagues were “afraid to turn their backs on him”.

Mougouchov arrived in France in 2008 with his parents and four siblings and unsuccessfully applied for asylum in 2021. Authorities were apparently powerless to expel him from the country because he entered France before he was 13.

His younger brother was arrested outside another school but was not found to be carrying a weapon, said police.

His older brother Mosvar is serving a five-year prison term over a plot to “target the Elysée” in a Kalashnikov attack, according to Le Parisien. The plot was foiled after a French secret agent infiltrated the gang, according to the newspaper.

Without residency papers, the entire family was due to be expelled from France in 2014. But, at the last minute, they were allowed to stay after anti-racism charities intervened.

Once again blood is one the hands of not just the murderers but the oh so nice liberals who enabled them