“Blood calls for blood”: as his trial approaches, the assailant of Professor Dominique Bernard remains anchored in his radicalism

“I have no reason to regret the action I did (...) Dominique Bernard died as an unbeliever who denies his creator.” The last words of Mohammed Mogouchkov during his final interrogation, on January 12, 2026, before the three investigating judges reflect a determination and radicalization that have remained unchanged since his deadly journey, three years earlier, in Arras. This Wednesday, the magistrates recorded his referral to the special assize court for the assassination in connection with a terrorist enterprise of the literature professor Dominique Bernard, as well as for the assassination attempts on five other members of the educational team of the Gambetta-Carnot school complex, according to revelations from RTL confirmed to Le Figaro. His little brother Souleiman and his cousin Akhmed, so far prosecuted for “complicity in assassination in relation to a terrorist enterprise” and “participation in a criminal terrorist association” for the first; "abstention…