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"How can one die of teaching?": Teachers upset by the knife attack in Arras

2023-10-13T18:04:51.555Z

Highlights: "How can one die of teaching?": Teachers upset by the knife attack in Arras. Within the Ministry of Education, the death of a French teacher, stabbed by a former student, resonates terribly with the murder of Samuel Paty. "We are shocked, scandalized, indignant, in mourning," said Maxime Reppert, vice-president of the Snalc teachers' union, who was in contact with teachers on site during the lockdown imposed on staff and students at the Gambetta high school following the attack.


Within the Ministry of Education, the death of a French teacher, stabbed by a former student, resonates terribly with the murder of Samuel Paty. This Monday, October 16, schools are due to commemorate this fateful anniversary.


A French teacher at the Gambetta-Carnot school complex in Arras was stabbed to death by a former student of the school, Mohammed Mogouchkov, a 20-year-old Caucasian who has an S file and is actively monitored by the DGSI. A few days before the anniversary of the assassination of Samuel Paty, beheaded on October 16, 2020 by a Caucasian Islamist terrorist, in a tense international context, it is a time of dread, sadness and questions, too, within the educational community.

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"We are shocked, scandalized, indignant, in mourning," said Maxime Reppert, vice-president of the Snalc teachers' union, who was in contact with teachers on site during the lockdown imposed on staff and students at the Gambetta high school following the attack. We are also worried and we have a lot of questions," he said. What were the attacker's motivations? How did he get into high school? How can we improve the safety of students and staff?

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