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“One year later, we are together”: the mayor of Arras pays tribute to Dominique Bernard
“One year later, we are together”: the mayor of Arras (Pas-de-Calais) pays tribute to Dominique Bernard, October 13, 2024.
(FRANCE TELEVISIONS)
On October 13, 2023, late in the morning, Dominique Bernard was murdered with several stab wounds by a radicalized Islamist former student.
More than 2,000 people, including a large number of parents who came with their children, gathered on the Place des Héros in Arras (Pas-de-Calais), Sunday October 13. One year to the day after his assassination by a radicalized Islamist ex-student, the city paid tribute to Professor Dominique Bernard during a ceremony in the presence of several ministers and his relatives.
The ceremony took place at 11 a.m., the time at which Dominique Bernard, 57, was killed with several stab wounds by Mohammed Mogouchkov, a Russian from Ingushetia, then aged 20. The centrist mayor of the town, Frédéric Leturque, welcomed a “sober and dignified ceremony” and assured that one year after the death of the teacher, “we are together, still standing”.
Thought with those close to the teacher as a “cultural memory sequence”according to Frédéric Leturque, the ceremony included different artistic performances, an interpretation of Quartet K.285 from Mozart to that of a song by Damien Saez, Paradise children. Poetry readings and contemporary dance were also on the program.