Overview
- On October 13, 2023, a former pupil, Mohammed Mogouchkov, fatally stabbed French teacher Dominique Bernard outside Lycée Gambetta‑Carnot in Arras and wounded three others.
- On June 23, 2026 the Parquet national antiterroriste filed a definitive requisition asking judges to send Mogouchkov to the cour d’assises spéciale des mineurs, moving the case closer to a trial that could take place in 2027.
- Mogouchkov is under formal investigation for assassination and attempted assassination in connection with a terrorist enterprise and for membership in a terrorist criminal association; he remains in pretrial detention and has publicly claimed the attack for the Islamic State.
- The prosecutor proposed dropping a complicity charge against the attacker’s younger brother but seeks to try him for participation in a terrorist association with the brother now under electronic monitoring after a brief detention and administrative‑expulsion episode, and has asked that a cousin face juvenile court for failing to report the crime while free under judicial supervision.
- Authorities note Mogouchkov was placed on an S file in February 2021 and monitored by the DGSI from July 2023, a fact that sharpens scrutiny of French intelligence and prevention practices and helps explain why judges of instruction now hold the key decision on whether the case goes to trial.