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A knifeman shouting ''Allahu Akbar'' at a school in France has left one teacher dead

2023-10-14

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A knifeman shouting "Allahu Akbar" at a school in France has left one teacher dead and several other people injured as former Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal called for a Day of Jihad.

"He has a knife, guys, he has a knife ..."
Eyewitness video shows people trying to stop… pic.twitter.com/vdWs0n673a
— 'Seeing is believing' (@dave24144975) October 13, 2023

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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
French media talked about the Mogushkov family

The elder brother of Mohamad Mogushkov, who was detained after the attack on a school in Arras, is serving a sentence under terrorist charges, and Mohamad himself was under surveillance by security forces. In 2014, the French authorities tried to deport the Mogushkov family, which includes five children, to Russia, according to French media publications.

As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, police in Arras, France, detained a 20-year-old native of Chechnya suspected of attacking a school, which resulted in the death of a teacher and two people being stabbed. According to French publications, this is Mohamad Mogushkov, in France he was included in the "S" list for "radical Islamism", and his younger brother was detained near another high school.

The elder brother of the Arras school attack suspect has been convicted of terrorism charges, BFMTV reported today, citing a police source. Arrested in 2019 on charges of plotting a terrorist attack, he was sentenced to five years in prison for aiding and abetting terrorism offenses and 18 months for justifying terrorism. He is currently being held in La Sane prison in Paris, according to a publication on the television network's website, citing a source close to the case.

The suspect himself, Mohamad Mogushkov, recently became the object of active surveillance by security forces - he was wiretapped and subjected to “physical surveillance.” The last check was on October 12, but no charges were brought, Le Figaro reported today, citing a police source.

In February 2014, French authorities attempted to deport the Mogushkov family, which includes five children, to Russia, France 3 Regions Bretagne reported on February 19, 2014. On this morning, they were woken up by border guards who sent the family to the airport. However, the deportation of the family was prevented by a number of organizations involved in helping refugees, who stood up for them, and the family was released. The practice of expulsion was then condemned by the branch of the federation of the Communist Party of France, which stated that the family meets all the necessary criteria - its members speak French, the children are successfully receiving an education, the publication says.

Almost three years ago, on October 16, 2020, in the suburbs of Paris, teacher Samuel Paty was beheaded, who had previously shown his students caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad from Charlie Hebdo magazine during a lesson on freedom of speech. The alleged killer was shot dead by the police; he turned out to be an 18-year-old Russian citizen, a native of Chechnya, Abdulak (Abdullah) Anzorov, who received refugee status in France. Anzorov was buried in the family cemetery in the village of Shalazhi, Urus-Martan district.

The Times of Israel has details of the attack and a fuzzy photo of the miscreant being taken in by police:

A Chechen-origin man fatally stabbed a teacher and severely maimed three other adults Friday at a school in northeastern La Belle France, with authorities suggesting a probable link to Israel’s war with Hamas
Hamas

...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
The attack, denounced by President Emmanuel Macron as an act of "Islamist terror," was in the town of Arras which has large Jewish and Moslem populations.

"This school was struck by the barbarity of Islamist terrorism," Macron said after visiting the school, saying the victim had "probably saved many lives" with his courage in seeking to block the attacker.

Macron said another "attempted attack" in another region had been foiled by security forces.

According to the interior ministry, he was referring to the arrest of a "radicalized" man who was arrested leaving a prayer hall in the Yvelines region of Gay Paree for carrying a prohibited weapon.

Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin later said there was "probably a link between what’s happening in the Middle East and this incident" in Arras.

La Belle France has upped its alert level to the highest position following a crunch security meeting chaired by Macron later Friday, the prime minister’s office told AFP.

The suspected attacker, Mohammed Moguchkov, who is in his 20s, was arrested by police.

A total of eight people were in police custody on Friday, a police source said.

In addition to the attacker, several members of his family were arrested "for the purposes of the investigation," including one of his brothers and his sister, other police sources said.

The national anti-terrorist prosecutor announced that it has opened an investigation.

Moguchkov is from Russia’s mainly Moslem southern Caucasus region of Chechnya. He was already on a French national register known as "Fiche S" as a potential security threat, a police source told AFP, and under electronic and physical surveillance by La Belle France’s domestic intelligence agency, the DGSI.

Moguchkov cried the Arabic phrase "~~holy shit!~~ Allahu akbar!" (God is greatest), according to the preliminary elements of the investigation.

The victim, a French teacher, was stabbed in the throat and chest.

Among those maimed were a school security agent who was stabbed multiple times and is fighting for his life, and a teacher in a less serious condition, the source added.

A cleaner was also hurt, anti-terror prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard said.

No pupils at the school were hurt, said another police source.

Police say Moguchkov’s brother, aged 17, was detained close to another school.

A philosophy teacher who witnessed the attack, Martin Dousseau, described a moment of panic during break-time, when the schoolchildren found themselves face-to-face with the armed man.

"He attacked canteen staff. I wanted to go down to intervene, he turned to me, chased me and asked me if I was a history and geography teacher," said Dousseau.

"We barricaded ourselves in, then the police arrived and immobilized him."

Courtesy of Skidmark, the Daily Mail has more in addition to photos and a video of the attack (once again this is a Rantburg team project):

An alleged ISIS supporter stabbed a teacher to death at a school in northern La Belle France today before seriously wounding two others.

Mohammed Mogouchkov, a Chechen refugee aged 19, is said to have murdered Dominique Bernard, a French literature teacher in his 40s at the Gambetta high school in Arras at 11am local time.

At least two other people were maimed, including a security agent who was stabbed multiple times and a teacher who is in a less serious condition, a source added. No pupil at the school was hurt.

Both Mogouchkov and his brother, who was also taken into custody, were known to the authorities and were on the national security watchlist, police said.

Mogouchkov's brother is said to have spent 18 months in prison for distributing ISIS propaganda online, and Mogouchkov was also a known ISIS sympathiser, sources said.

Sliman Hamzi, a police officer who was one of the first on the scene said Mogouchkov, a former pupil at the school, shouted: 'Allahu Akbar' - 'God is great' in Arabic.

Mr Hamzi said he was alerted by another officer who was passing in front of the high school and called in. He 'was shouting: 'Someone is attacking with a knife,'' Mr Hamzi said.

'Colleagues arrived quickly but unfortunately couldn't save the victim,' Mr Hamzi said.

Fabien Dufay, a PE teacher at the school said he had taught Mogouchkov in his final year 'three years ago'. He described him as a 'reserved, calm student with whom I had completely normal conversations.'

The attacker 'had two knives in his hands,' says another teacher at the school, who asked not to be named. 'He turned to me and said, 'Are you a history teacher? Are you a history teacher?',' said the teacher, who then hid behind a glass door.

He added: 'It was only when I left that I was able to see that the attack was much more serious than I thought. Someone was dead in front of the school.'

Clips of what appear to be the attack circulated by students on social media show how a man appears to lunge at victims in the courtyard. One of the victims holds a chair between himself and the attacker to defend himself but is ultimately bundled to the ground and sustains several blows.

Students meanwhile barricaded themselves in classrooms and were told to remain inside.

President Emmanuel Macron said in an address to the nation on Thursday that 582 religious and cultural facilities in La Belle France were receiving stepped-up police protection.

Update from Russia Today at 10:30 p.m. EDT courtesy of Grom in comments below — for searchability later:

The suspect was identified as Mohamed Mogouchkov, a “Russian national” of Chechen or Ingush origin, who was under police monitoring for his involvement with Islamist extremists groups.

Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said there is “no doubt” that the Arras attack is linked to the current conflict between Israel and Hamas. Police have arrested Mogouchkov, as well as his mother, sister, uncle, and 17-year-old brother.

Posted by:Fred

#3 France introduces terrorist threat regime

Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-10-14 12:16

#2 Take that family ~~tree~~ stick out by the roots

Posted by: Frank G 2023-10-14 09:20

#1 France vs. USA.
French police arrive, enter immediately and arrest or halt the mentally ill attacker.

USA... well we all have read enought news articles.

Posted by: NN2N1 2023-10-14 07:17

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