LIVE – Teacher killed in Arras: Gambetta-Carnot high school evacuated after bomb threat

The Gambetta-Carnot high school, where a teacher from Arras was killed on Friday October 13, was evacuated this morning after a bomb threat, BFMTV learned from a police source.

According to our information, the alert was made on the chat site moncommissariat.fr. This is a platform which explains the steps to take and which guides users to the various police and gendarmerie services.

Mine clearance was requested.

Bag searches are carried out.

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Emmanuel Macron will chair a security meeting at noon, in the same format as that of Friday, after the murder of a teacher from Arras, still against a backdrop of fear of importing the conflict between Israel and Hamas.

Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne, several members of the government (Interior, Justice, Defense, Foreign Affairs, Education, Higher Education), as well as the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces, the Secretary General of Defense, the national coordinator of the fight against terrorism and the bosses of the security services (DGSI, DGSE), specified the Élysée.

On BFMTV, Pierre Valette, head of the SAMU teams who came to the aid of the victims of the knife attack in Arras, recounts the intervention carried out last Friday.

“The first alert was numerous calls to center 15 which described this situation (…) very quickly, we had the notion of imminent danger and very quickly, we had the notion of a first victim who had died and other victims to deplore,” he says.

Means were “immediately” committed to taking care of the victims.

“The first person treated was the maintenance worker who had several stab wounds, chest wounds, injuries to the cervical region, who was in extreme emergency,” he explains.

He adds: “Then, the second team present on site takes care of the second victim who, even if initially could be categorized as a relative emergency, was still an absolute emergency for us. On stabbings, there is an effect assessment which is quite difficult. the wounds can be apparently superficial but much deeper once they are explored.

On site, emergency services discovered the professor dead. “When help arrives, he is dead. There, we are subject to legal procedures, not to get too close to a deceased person, so as not to bias the investigations that follow behind,” specifies Pierre Valette.

Victims who were in a state of shock were also treated. “At the same time, we knew that there would be victims who we call victims without apparent injury, who, however, are real victims who must be taken care of as quickly as possible.”

At the opening of the social conference at the Economic, Social and Environmental Council (CESE), Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne began her speech with a word for Arras and for the start of the school year this morning.

“Above all else, I wanted to have a word after the tragedy which affected our country last Friday. In Arras, Dominique Bernard, literature teacher at the Gambetta high school, was brutally murdered, a victim of Islamist terrorism. Another teacher and two agents of service were injured. This attack comes at a particular time, almost three days to the day after the death of Samuel Paty and in the geopolitical context that we know,” she declares.

The Prime Minister expressed her “thoughts”, her “solidarity”: “that of my government and I have no doubt that of each and everyone towards the families, loved ones, colleagues of the victims”. A minute of silence was observed afterwards.

“Faced with such tragedies, we have a duty of unity,” demands the Prime Minister. She continues: “Unity does not mean denying our differences, it is also being able to talk to each other, to lead a peaceful dialogue together to build solutions in the interest of the country and the French.”

Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne and Minister of National Education Gabriel Attal will participate in the minute of silence today at 2 p.m. at the Bois d’Aulne college, in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine. The school was that of Samuel Paty.

The President of the Republic spoke this morning on X (formerly Twitter) to National Education staff. He paid tribute to Dominique Bernard, the teacher killed during a knife attack on Friday October 13.

“Last Friday, while trying to protect his students, he fell victim to Islamist terrorism. A physical education and sports teacher, a maintenance worker and the head of the establishment’s technical team were also injured, the price of their courage. All of them, struck because they intervened between the school and fanaticism,” he wrote.

Also paying tribute to Samuel Paty, the Head of State continued by assuring that the “School must remain this bulwark against obscurantism”.

Guest of Telematin on France 2 this Monday morning, the President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet expressed her wish to see the immigration law adopted in Parliament “before the end of the year”.

“I hope that we do not procrastinate and that we can vote on it as quickly as possible,” explained Yaël Braun-Pivet.

“I believe that today, we must come together and be extremely firm,” added the President of the National Assembly, insisting: “there is no place for people who have a hatred of the Republic.

Reinforced security at the Gambetta-Carnot high school in Arras. An important device is in place today, three police officers remained on duty throughout the night.

Around thirty concrete blocks were installed throughout the establishment which is located in the city center.

Safety cords are also visible.

The school staff arrives little by little.

Emmanuel Macron wants his ministers to “embody a state that is ruthless towards all those who carry hatred and terrorist ideologies”, an advisor to the Élysée told journalists on Monday.

The Head of State also asked that the prefects comb through the file of radicalized people likely to be expelled from France to ensure that there was no “overlook” in the review of procedures.

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Throughout France, classes are normal until 10 a.m. this Monday morning in middle and high schools. The opportunity for teachers to have a “time of exchange that is both human and educational”, indicated Gabriel Attal, Minister of National Education.

“You need to get together, to discuss, to prepare as best as possible for the return of the students,” added Gabriel Attal.

School teachers will be able to discuss “during the mid-day break”.

According to a source close to the matter at BFMTV, “it is confirmed that it was a profile versed in religion, who seems to resent France and on whom his father had a strong rigorist influence”.

Investigators are also wondering about the possible influence of Mohammed Mogouchkov’s entourage, particularly his older brother, on his actions.

Maxime C, detained at Moulins-Yzeure prison (Allier), is also suspected of having influenced the alleged attacker.

Police custody of the two people of Belarusian origin was lifted on Sunday, BFMTV learned from a source close to the matter.

Another person, a relative of the attacker, was also arrested and taken into custody on Sunday.

Still in police custody, the attacker, Mohammed Mogouchkov, was interviewed several times by investigators, but did not comment on the attack.

According to information from BFMTV, however, he spoke by telephone with his older brother, who was incarcerated, the day before the incident.

Christian, maintenance worker at Gambetta high school, tells BFMTV about his contact with the attacker during the attack on Friday.

“We thought we saw a fight between students (…) but there, I have a colleague who started shouting, ‘there is a man with a knife, we have to lock ourselves in, he is in the process of stabbing people.”

The maintenance worker explains that he went to contact the attacker, before ending up on the ground, stunned. His boss intervened to help him, before he was also thrown to the ground. It was ultimately the arrival of the police that saved them.

Guest of 8 p.m. on TF1, the Minister of National Education assured that he would not accept any form of protest during the minute of silence scheduled for 2 p.m., as may have been the case after the death of Samuel Paty in 2020.

He specified that a “nominal report” of any protesting person would be made, as well as a referral to the public prosecutor.

The day after the tribute paid to Dominique Bernard in Arras, numerous gatherings are planned today in the Nord and Pas-de-Calais.

The town of Douai calls for a rally at 12:15 p.m. in front of the Jean-Baptiste Corot high school, as does the town of Hesdin where the meeting takes place in front of the town hall.

In Laventie, a Republican march will leave from avenue Henri-Puchoi, in front of the Pays de l’Alloeu college, at 6:30 p.m.

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A minute of silence will be observed in all middle and high schools in the region at 2 p.m. this afternoon.

The Association of Mayors of France also called on “mayors who wish to organize a minute of silence on Monday October 16, inviting the population to participate”.

In Lille in particular, a gathering is planned at 2 p.m. in front of the town hall for a minute of silence.

Many rallies are planned today across France, in tribute to Dominique Bernard, the teacher killed in a knife attack on Friday at the Gambetta high school in Arras.

A gathering was held yesterday in Arras, where the bells of the town and the belfry rang out at the end of the tribute paid to the teacher.