Assassinated on October 13, 2023 in Arras by his former student Mohammed Mogouchkov, Dominique Bernard had noticed his “dangerous character” from middle school and had to “be careful” about what he said, his widow reported on Saturday in The World.
“When Mohammed Mogouchkov was a student at college and Dominique had him in class, the management team did everything to point out the dangerous character of this boy,” indicates Isabelle Bernard to the daily, in her first media appearance since the her husband’s funeral.
No reproaches to be made to National Education
Faced with this student, “I can’t say everything I want, I have to be careful,” the French teacher regretted, his wife remembers. “Another time in the year, he confided to me: ‘I still said that I was a free person.’”
In the eyes of this English teacher, “everyone did their job”, “we cannot blame anything” on National Education. “The police knew that he intended to act but did not know when,” she emphasizes. “Someone who is determined to kill will kill. »
No political recovery
On Friday October 13, 2023, at 11:00 a.m., her husband was fatally stabbed by Mohammed Mogouchkov, a Russian then aged 20, at the entrance to the Gambetta-Carnot school complex where he taught. Another teacher and two officers were also injured.
In an interview with The Voice of the Northalso published on Saturday, Isabelle Bernard emphasizes that it is “out of the question” that there will be a political recovery of the tribute which will be paid to her husband on Sunday on the Place des Héros in Arras, in the presence of several members of the government.
The ceremony, focused on the arts, will pay tribute to “all the victims of terrorism,” she explains. Isabelle Bernard also created a literary prize, open for its first edition to students in 4th, 3rd and 2nd grades of Arrageois. It bears her husband’s name and “humanist values”, she told the northern daily.
