Mohammed Mogouchkov, indicted for the stabbing murder of Dominique Bernard, a French teacher in Arras, had been on file for Islamist radicalization since February 2021, the Interior Ministry said this Friday, confirming information from BFMTV.
Since February 2021, the young Russian, originally from Ingushetia, was monitored by territorial intelligence, after a report from National Education, the same source added. It was only from July 2023 that it was followed by the services of the General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI), we continued.
According to information from BFMTV, confirmed by the Ministry of the Interior, he had been the subject of “two reports from the Gambetta high school in Arras”, his former school. In November 2020, a teacher from Gambetta high school was verbally and physically attacked by a student in her class, while she was discussing the memory of Samuel Paty, murdered a few weeks earlier. This student, excluded from high school, was in contact with Mohammed Mogouchkov, which prompted a report from National Education.
Later, the same teacher filed a complaint after being followed to her home by Mohammed Mogouchkov, who tried to intimidate her on several occasions. At the end of December 2020, he entered the teacher’s classroom at the end of his lesson. In February 2021, he was then registered with the FSPRT (file of radicalized people). Subsequently, a new report was filed, in April 2022, according to BFMTV, while Mohammed Mogouchkov was a BTS student, for absenteeism and comments in class such as: “My name is pronounced like Kalashnikov”, “is it that this tool can kill? » or “is this mixture explosive?” “.