The perpetrator of the attack that killed a teacher at a secondary school in Arras (northern France) stated in a video that the act was carried out in the name of the Islamic State (IS) organization.
The information was provided by a source cited by the French news agency AFP, confirming a story initially published by CNews.
According to this source, Mohammed Mogouchkov, 20 years old, of Chechen-Russian nationality and accused of Islamic radicalization, vindicates his action and makes a “very marginal” allusion to the attack by the Islamist group Hamas in Israel on October 7. .
After being detained for 96 hours as part of the investigation opened by the French National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office for murder and attempted murder, Mohammed Mogouchkov is expected to appear before an anti-terrorism court this Tuesday to be formally charged.
In the attack on the Gambetta-Carnot high school in Arras, Dominique Bernard was stabbed to death and three other people were injured.
The alleged perpetrator of the crime, arrested during the attack, was being followed by the French secret services due to his Islamist affinities and was even interrogated by the police on the eve of the attack. The investigation has already led to eight other arrests.
The attack led the Government to activate maximum alert against terrorist threats and order, during the past weekend, several evacuations of emblematic places, such as the Louvre Museum or the Palace of Versailles.
Since 2012, “jihadist” terrorist attacks in France have killed 272 people and injured 1,200, especially in 2015 and 2016.
Source: TSF
