In the investigation into the attack from the Arras high school, which cost the life of a teacher and injured three other people, the mother and sister of Mohamed M., the attacker arrested on Friday, were released, franceinfo learned from a source close to the investigation on Monday. They had both been in police custody since Friday, the day of the attack. Mohamed M.’s uncle and a radicalized detainee, who exchanged Mohamed M. on secure networks, were also released without prosecution at this stage. The second returned to detention, France Télévisions learned from corroborating sources. Follow our live stream.
Emmanuel Macron present at the funeral of Dominique Bernard. The funeral of Dominique Bernard, the teacher murdered Friday in a jihadist attack, will take place Thursday at 10 a.m. at Arras Cathedral (Pas-de-Calais) and will be chaired by Olivier Leborgne, bishop of the city, the bishopric announced to France Télévisions. Emmanuel Macron will be present during this ceremony.
The mayor of Arras proposes to rename the Gambetta-Carnot high school in the name of Dominique Bernard. Frédéric Leturque, proposed to the Hauts-de-France regional council and the Lille rectorate to rename the Gambetta-Carnot high school in homage to Dominique Bernard, he announced Monday in a press release. “For Arras and for France, it would be a question of never forgetting, of showing that we are standing and of affirming that we will never give in in the face of obscurantism”declares the mayor.
A minute of silence in tribute to Dominique Bernard and Samuel Paty. Schools observed a minute of silence at 2 p.m. in tribute to Dominique Bernard. Elisabeth Borne and Gabriel Attal were at the Bois d’Aulne college, in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines), the establishment where Samuel Paty worked, also assassinated in an Islamist attack three years ago to the day. The Prime Minister delivered a short speech in tribute to the two teachers. “Barbarism never prevails in the face of knowledge. The Republic will never bend in the face of terrorism.”she said.
Bomb threat lifted. Students and teachers returned to the Gambetta-Carnot high school, in Arras (Pas-de-Calais), Monday shortly after noon, according to observations by franceinfo journalists on site. In the morning, around 300 people evacuated the buildings of the school complex, according to the police, after a bomb threat. Teachers and students were sheltered while the necessary checks were carried out.