The mother of the man who killed Professor Dominique Bernard on October 13 in Arras in Pas-de-Calais considers himself a collateral victim of his son's actions. The investigating chamber must render its decision on February 7, according to Me Benillouche.

The mother was heard on January 9 as a witness in the judicial investigation targeting two of her sons, the attacker Mohammed Mogouchkov, and his younger brother, indicted for complicity in assassination in connection with a terrorist enterprise. The father was expelled from France in 2018 to Russia, where he stayed for a year.