In the days immediately after the attacks, French police carried out hundreds of raids across the country, as the search for suspects continued.
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The teacher suffered wounds to the neck and the side and is receiving treatment in the Lariboisière hospital.
The teacher is being questioned about why he made up the incident.
When a French nursery school teacher said he had been stabbed Monday by a man claiming to be acting in the name of Islamic State, authorities here reacted swiftly.
In March 2012 jihadi Mohamed Merah killed three children and a teacher outside a Jewish school in southwestern France in attacks that also saw him kill three soldiers.
The attacker was dressed in painter’s overalls and a balaclava and arrived without a weapon but grabbed what appeared to be a box cutter that was lying in the classroom.
The teacher, from the Jean Perrin d’Aubervilliers school in the Paris region of Seine-Saint-Denis, was preparing for classes around 7.30 a.m. when he was attacked by a hooded man. The teacher had been alone in the classroom when the attacker, wearing full faced covering and gloves, struck.
Anti-terrorism investigators are looking into the incident, Paris prosecutor’s office spokeswoman Agnes Thibault-Lecuivre said.
The ISIS French-language magazine Dar-al-Islam called in its November edition for its followers to kill teachers in the French education system.
Citing a witness, AFP reported that the teacher apparently claimed his attacker said “This is Daesh”.
Education Minister Najat Vallaud-Belkacem visited the school Monday, AP said, promising greater security for France’s education centers going forward.
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The caution of French authorities comes as no surprise, as Paris has been in a state of emergency ever since November’s terrorist attacks in the capital claimed the life of 130 people and left over 350 wounded.
