The terror attack at the Lycée Gambetta in Arras, France which took the life of teacher Dominique Bernard last Friday occurred nearly three years to the day after the assassination of Samuel Paty, a history and geography teacher who was killed outside his school in a suburb of Paris on October 16th, 2020, a few days after having shown his class caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad during a civics lesson on freedom of expression.
But the Arras school attack was not the second such attack in France in the last three years. It was in fact the third, all of them involving a remarkably similar modus operandi. But French authorities have refused to qualify the second attack as an act of terror.
On May 10th 2022, the 41-year-old French army doctor Alban Gervaise was mortally wounded in a knife attack by one Mohamed L. in front of the Sévigné Catholic school in Marseille. He would succumb to his injuries two weeks later. Gervaise had come to collect two of his children, aged three and seven. His third child, still an infant at the time of the attack, was in the backseat of his car.
Gervaise appears to have had his throat slit, although the French media have preferred to speak euphemistically of his being “wounded in the neck” or “stabbed in the neck” (e.g., here from the day of the attack).
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Samuel Paty was also killed in a knife attack. As forensic details show, his killer Abdoullakh Anzorov likewise went for the neck, afterwards pulling out a larger knife in order to fully sever Paty’s head from his body. He would then post a picture of Paty’s severed head on Twitter in claiming responsibility for the attack. The attack is reconstructed in gruesome detail in Stéphane Simon’s Les dernier jours de Samuel Paty (The last days of Samuel Paty).
Dominique Bernard likewise had his throat slit in the Arras attack, as has been briefly and somewhat euphemistically touched upon in reports in the mainstream French media and as was, in any case, clear from video clips circulating in French social media in the immediate aftermath of the attack. (Some screen shots of such videos are available here.) The Arras attacker, Mohammed Mogouchkov, also wounded at least one other of his victims, the gym teacher David Verhaeghe, in the throat. Verhaeghe, however, survived.
According to many accounts, witnesses heard Alban Gervaise’s murderer, Mohammed L., scream that he was acting “in the name of Allah”. (See here, for instance, from the day of the attack in the new media outlet Actu17, which reports on crime and security issues.) France’s mainstream conservative daily Le Figaro, however, preferred merely to reveal that he had screamed “religious allegations” (sic!), saying that he was acting “in the name of God”. This version – “in the name of God” – is the one that would invariably be reproduced in all subsequent reporting on the case in the mainstream French media.
One could well wonder just what God would want his acolytes to kill a father picking up his children from a Catholic school. Be that as it may, this formula is precisely the formula that was used by Abdoullakh Anzorov in claiming responsibility for the assassination of Samuel Paty: “In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful… I have executed one of your dogs of hell who dared to disparage Muhammad” (Simon, Les derniers jours de Samuel Paty).
Both Anzorov and Mogouchkov are reported to have yelled “Allahu Akbar!” during their attacks.
To the dismay of his widow Christelle, French authorities have refused to treat the murder of Alban Gervaise as an act of terrorism, treating it instead as the act of a madman who was wasn’t responsible for his actions at the time of committing them. As Christelle has pointed out in an interview with Le Figaro, the supposedly “delirious” Mohamed L. had already turned up at another school in Marseille just an hour before the attack on her husband, bursting into the car of a teacher who managed to get away and raise the alarm.
The deadliest terror attack at a French school thus far occurred in March 2012, when the 23-year-old apprentice-jihadist Mohammed Merah killed three small children and a teacher at a Jewish school in Toulouse.
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Read “While Europe Slept” by Bruce Bauer. ———–I knew people could sleepwalk but I never knew a whole continent could, and that is what Europe is doing.
But Europe is not simply “asleep”. It has been put into an induced coma by an infiltrated establishment to ease the imposition of a neo-Marxist programme. The utter swine behind these manoeuvres rely on a simple process of rising to the top, promoting fellow members of their “lodge” and exploiting a gullible acceptance of authority and moralism which always characterises the mass. Working in academe I am privy to the process and the way it functions – the swine are few in number but they can rely upon whole armies of sheep – as in “Animal Farm”. And the worst of it is that even the most suspicious members of the public are apt to underestimate the pigs’ sheer malice. Their claim, made among themselves, that they endure their own malevolence for the sake of some greater good, is a joke, for that “good” is wholly devoid of the smallest scintilla of coherence or likelihood. No, they are as motivated by fanatical hatred as Stalin and his one-time German ally (39 – 41). And we are their targets. But the sheep will still bleat wholly irrational mantras in support of the swinish programme. I heard one such creature only the other day telling a posse of students that even if net zero achieves nothing, thanks to Chinese industrial development, we must – “like the humming bird” – continue to make our piffling contribution. When the public has been reduced to this level of unthinking, sheep like folly, then the pigs are on the point of victory.
You are literally spoilt for choice on which atrocity or other type of crime to share from across Europe, but what about the adage, ”prevention is better than cure”? As if Sweden doesn’t have enough problems regarding migrant-related crimes and gang warfare;
”More than a quarter of all ISIS brides returned to Sweden from the Al-Hol camp in Syria are now working with young children in the Swedish education sector, an investigation by the Expressen newspaper has revealed.
Of the 81 women confirmed to have fled Sweden to join the Islamic State at the peak of its power and subsequently repatriated, 21 were found to now be employed in Swedish schools, kindergartens, and asylum centers for kids.
The bombshell report evoked a strong reaction from government ministers who questioned how radicalized individuals who were willing to join a terrorist organization had been permitted to work with young people upon their return to the country.
“This shouldn’t have been allowed to happen,” said Education Minister Lotta Edholm in response to the news.
“It is completely unacceptable that people who are IS terrorists work in the Swedish school system, leisure centers, and the like,” she added.
Edholm confirmed that she had called an urgent meeting with the relevant authorities to discuss the issue, and accused educational facilities of systemic failure in screening its candidates.”
https://rmx.news/sweden/1-in-4-isis-brides-returned-to-sweden-now-work-in-swedish-schools-shocking-report-reveals/
Invade the world, invite the world, in hock to the world.
Steve Sailer’s snappy sentence that summarises the policies of the “democratic rich west” very neatly.
The solution has to be wholesale deportations.
Scrapping the welfare state would be enough: Muslims compete with Roma for the “most parasitical” trophy.
Wow I think this is actually some positive and authentic news at last. Hamas have released two US hostages, a mother and daughter. I don’t buy for one minute it’s for ”humanitarian” reasons. After the atrocities they’ve committed we’re now meant to believe they’ve taken pity on a woman in poor health? I’m wondering which Palestinian terrorist has been freed from prison in the US, because that was the only condition the Hamas boss said he’d release American hostages. They will of course be keeping all hostage negotiations under wraps, I expect, which is why we’re not hearing much about the situation, but Hamas were holding 203 people captive apparently.
”Hamas claimed on Friday evening it had freed two of the hostages it captured during its deadly terrorist attack against Israel on October 7, citing “humanitarian reasons”.
The two have been identified as Judith Raanan, 59, and Natalie Raanan, 18, a mother and her daughter who are dual Israeli and US nationals.
The two are residents of Chicago and had been visiting family in Kibbutz Nahal Oz on the day of the attack.
Israeli sources confirmed that the two had been handed over to the Red Cross and would be transferred to Egypt. Their families have been notified.
A source told CNN that the two are being released on “humanitarian grounds” because the mother is in poor health.
Gal Hirsch, who is in charge of the prisoners and missing persons, said that the two are in Israeli territory and are making their way to meet their family.”
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/378884
https://www.globalresearch.ca/internet-censorship-everywhere-all-once/5837196
An excellent article pointing out how Western governments are working in lockstep to ban freedom of speech.