The teacher also reported that his “attacker” had yelled “This is for Daesh” (another word for Isis), a odd choice of words considering that the group has said in the past it would cut the tongues off anyone using it. She said the preschool teacher, 45, was in the hospital for his wounds, which were not life-threatening, and was being questioned further.
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The teacher had claimed he was attacked in a classroom at the Jean Perrin d’Aubervilliers school at around 7am on Monday morning.
He had claimed that a man in overalls and balaclava had arrived while he was preparing for his class yesterday, grabbed a box cutter and scissors that were in the room and attacked him.
The three men who attacked the teacher uttered anti-Semitic remarks during the incident, AFP reported.
Abaaoud and two other accomplices, one being his cousin, were killed in shootout on a complex in the Parisian suburb of Saint Denis on November 18, with police stating his identity only became known after his fingerprints were taken.
The attack comes one month after ISIS carried out several coordinated terror attacks in Paris, killing 130 people and wounding over 300 others.
The two suspects were identified by the prosecutor’s office as Claude Hermant, an acknowledged mercenary, and his partner, who were arrested on suspicion of helping to provide guns to Coulibaly.
“We will continue to reinforce security measures at schools in a context where schools feel threatened”, Ms Vallaud-Belkacem said.
Parents dropping off children are no longer allowed to linger at the school gates, and children are not allowed to wait outside for the doors to open.
French police arrested two men and a woman Tuesday in connection with last month’s terrorist massacre in Paris and the attacks in the city in January, judiciary officials said.
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In the November release of the group’s French-language magazine, Dar-al-Islam, the militant group called for its sympathizers to attack teachers in the French education system as they said they are “enemies of Allah” for teaching secular values. Law enforcement officials have increased security at schools in the wake of the November 13 attacks.
