{"id":2710,"date":"2023-10-17T08:56:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T12:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/french-school-killer-claimed-attack-for-islamic-state-group\/17\/10\/2023\/"},"modified":"2023-10-17T08:56:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T12:56:00","slug":"french-school-killer-claimed-attack-for-islamic-state-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/french-school-killer-claimed-attack-for-islamic-state-group\/17\/10\/2023\/","title":{"rendered":"French school killer claimed attack for Islamic State group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The man who killed a French schoolteacher last week said he was acting for the Islamic State (IS) group, in a video recorded before the attack, a source close to the case said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed Moguchkov, 20, also made a &#8220;very marginal&#8221; reference to the October 7 attack by Hamas on Israel in the video before knifing the teacher to death at a school in Arras in northern France on Friday, the source added.<\/p>\n<p>Moguchkov, a Russian from the mainly Muslim northern Caucasus region, was due to appear before an investigating magistrate later Tuesday to be charged.<\/p>\n<p>The attack came almost three years to the day after a similar killing of a teacher near Paris, which shocked the public and triggered a massive security response.<\/p>\n<p>France again raised its security level after Friday&#8217;s attack, deploying 7,000 troops.<\/p>\n<p>Adding to the tension, the school in the town of Arras was evacuated Monday over a bomb threat, which proved to be a false alarm.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the Palace of Versailles &#8212; one of France&#8217;s most recognisable historic landmarks &#8212; was also evacuated after a bomb threat, according to a post from its account on X (formerly Twitter) and a source familiar with the case.<\/p>\n<p>The palace had received a similar threat on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Following the shooting in Belgian capital Brussels of two Swedes by a Tunisian man also claiming inspiration from Islamic State, President <button class=\"caas-xray-inline caas-xray-entity caas-xray-pill\" data-ylk=\"cid:Emmanuel_Macron;pos:1;elmt:wiki;sec:pill-inline-entity;elm:pill-inline-text;itc:1;cat:OfficeHolder;\" data-entity-id=\"Emmanuel_Macron\">Emmanuel Macron<\/button> said Tuesday that &#8220;all European states are vulnerable&#8230; there is a return of this Islamist terrorism&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We all have a vulnerability. It&#8217;s what comes with being a democracy, a rule-of-law state where there are individuals who can decide at a given moment to commit the worst acts,&#8221; Macron told reporters in Albanian capital Tirana.<\/p>\n<p>He nevertheless added that he had seen &#8220;no failures&#8221; by French security services ahead of the stabbing in Arras.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8216;Sanctuary&#8217; schools &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>At home, Macron has told ministers to &#8220;embody a state that is ruthless towards all those who harbour hate and terrorist ideologies&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote that schools would remain a &#8220;bulwark&#8221; against extremism and &#8220;a sanctuary for our pupils and everyone who works there&#8221; in a Monday post on X (formerly Twitter).<\/p>\n<p>Macron&#8217;s office said he would attend the funeral of the victim, 57-year-old Dominique Bernard, on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The murder has intensified nervousness in France, which has large Muslim and Jewish populations and has been on the alert for violence since Hamas&#8217;s attack on Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said Monday that 102 people had been arrested for anti-Semitic acts or expressing support for terrorism since the October 7 assault.<\/p>\n<p>Bernard was killed almost three years to the day after teacher Samuel Paty was beheaded outside his school in a Paris suburb, on October 16, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The families of Paty&#8217;s killer and the suspected Arras assailant both hail from Russia&#8217;s North Caucasus region.<\/p>\n<p>Moguchkov was born in the republic of Ingushetia and reportedly arrived in France aged five.<\/p>\n<p>He was already on a French national register as a potential security threat and under surveillance by France&#8217;s domestic intelligence agency, the DGSI. His father, who was also on the list, was deported in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Macron has called on police to comb through their files of radicalised people who could be deported.<\/p>\n<p>Darmanin said 193 such cases would be re-examined.<\/p>\n<p>Macron has told Darmanin to focus especially on &#8220;young men between the ages of 16 and 25 from the Caucasus&#8221;, his aide said.<\/p>\n<p>sm-er\/tgb\/sjw\/rl<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/french-school-killer-claimed-attack-105831533.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The man who killed a French schoolteacher last week said he was acting for the Islamic State (IS) group, in a video<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/french-school-killer-claimed-attack-for-islamic-state-group\/17\/10\/2023\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2710"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}