Overview

• Strasbourg judicial police placed Mohammed Mogouchkov, Vincent Linder and a third inmate in custody on suspicion of organising a group escape from the Maison d’arrêt de Strasbourg.
• The trio, held in the high-security isolation wing, were found with contraband items including a metal saw, mobile phones and cannabis resin.
• Inspectors uncovered damage to at least three doors and cut bars, prompting the prosecutor’s office to open an inquiry into an attempted organized breakout.
• Mogouchkov, who stabbed to death his former teacher in the October 2023 Gambetta high school attack, remains under a separate counterterrorism investigation ahead of his late-2026 trial.
• Linder, a former leader of the dissolved Bastion social neo-fascist group serving a three-year sentence, and a third detainee known for narcotrafficking ties reveal an unusual Islamist and far-right cooperation.