A 45-year-old French teacher made headlines the world over on Monday after telling police he had been stabbed by a man shouting about terror group Isis while preparing for lessons at a nursery school north of Paris.
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The victim, a teacher at the Jean-Perrin d’Aubervilliers school in the commune of Aubervilliers in the northeastern Parisian department of Seine-Saint-Denis, was attacked Monday morning.
The official reportedly said the teacher stabbed himself to “have himself transferred” to another school.
The teacher was being questioned by police in relation to the incident, the Paris prosecutor’s office confirmed to other media outlets.
(CNN) – French authorities have established that at-large terror suspect Salah Abdeslam wore an explosive belt found on a Paris street 10 days after the November terror attacks, a source close to the investigation told CNN.
The false claim came amid high tensions in the city, which is still under a state of emergency following the 13 November attacks carried out by Islamic State terrorists in which 130 people were brutally killed.
The Paris prosecutor’s office says the two people arrested in northern France were held on suspicion of helping to provide guns to Amedy Coulibaly, who attacked a kosher supermarket in January.
The teacher also said that the man shouted: “This is Daesh”.
French Education Minister Najat Vallaud-Belkacem visited the Aubervilliers school after the attack, calling it an “act of great gravity”.
In a recent French-language publication, Islamic State denounced France’s state school system and urged readers to kill its teachers because they promoted what it called the evils of secular learning, music and drawing.
The assailant, who fled the scene on foot, remains at large and the motive for the attack is unclear, authorities said.
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Prosecutors said Syed, a British citizen, was obsessed with beheadings and the killing of British solider Lee Rigby, who was stabbed to death on a London street in 2013 by two British men inspired by Al Qaeda.
