“(The teacher) is being interviewed with a view to establishing the reasons for this invented story”, said an official from the Paris prosecutor’s office.
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The teacher was taken to hospital after the alleged attack, which triggered an investigation by anti-terrorism officials.
The victim is a teacher at the Jean-Perrin d’Aubervilliers school in the commune of Aubervilliers in the northeastern Parisian department of Seine-Saint-Denis.
The kindergarten teacher who claimed that he was stabbed in the neck by a Daesh fundamentalist, was lying according to the French prosecutors.
The teacher was attacked by the masked assailant with a box-cutter and scissors while preparing their classroom for the day, according to France 3. The teacher’s wounds were not life-threatening, the police said.
A teacher has been reportedly stabbed north of Paris in by an Islamic State supporter.
The brief exchange was reported by a witness working inside the school.
The incident came a month after gunmen and suicide bombers killed 130 people in Paris an attack claimed by Islamic State, which controls swathes of Syria and Iraq and has vowed to attack France, a member of the coalition of countries conducting air strikes against it.
Education Minister Najat Vallaud-Belkacem visited the school Monday, AP said, promising greater security for France’s education centers going forward. Speaking to French newspaper L’Express, Gregory Goupil from the Alliance police union said: “This method seems rather unusual for a terrorist group”. Beaudet noted earlier – before the man admitted fabricating the story – that the school guard said he did not see an attacker. Law enforcement officials have increased security at schools in the wake of the November 13 attacks.
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“We have received many calls from colleagues, who are very anxious”, she said.
