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What he has done is unacceptable. I was shocked (...) It's very difficult to understand." Interviewed by our colleagues at BFMTV, the father of the Arras attacker, who killed Professor Dominique Bernard on Friday, October 13, "condemned" his son's attack, while stressing "three essential causes" for his act.
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The first is his mental state, which is totally abnormal, first said Iakub Mogouchkov, who is on file S and was expelled from France in 2018 for acts of radicalization. My eldest son had warned me a month or two before: 'You must not leave Mohammed with his mother in his apartment.'" He then accuses his son's "mother," calling her a "provocative element." He was "always arguing with his mother," he said. According to residents of Arras, neighbours of the Mogushkov family, interviewed by AFP in mid-October, the mother was "afraid for her son", afraid "that he would turn like his father".
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'I'm not an extremist'
Finally, the man evokes the "French policy against Islam". "Everyone knows that France's policy is clearly against Islam. Always forbid in the name of freedom. Forbid. Forbid. All my problems with my family (...). And I'm religious. I'm not an extremist, I'm not a radical. I'm practicing.
»He added that he had already "been summoned to school" for comments his son made to a teacher. "But as I've always said, they're boys, don't provoke them!" The father, who was "a radical Islamist" according to the interior minister, said he was ready to be brought before the French justice system to answer for his son's actions. However, he said he feared being "deported to Russia. (...) I'm waiting. One day they will come for me," he concluded.