Teacher in alleged Isil attack had made story up

The teacher’s wounds were not life-threatening but he was still in the hospital, Thibault-Lecuivre said, before it was revealed that the attack appeared to be a hoax.

“(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.

France, which held regional elections on Sunday, remains in a state of high alert after the coordinated suicide bombing and shooting attacks in Paris on November 13 that left 130 people dead. No children were present during the attack, which was witnessed by other staff members at the school.

According to the BBC, the 45-year-old teacher originally told authorities that a man stabbed him while he was alone in a classroom in the Paris suburb of Aubervilliers on Monday morning.

The incident led to all classes at the school being cancelled, and also triggered a large police operation in the northern Paris suburb as officers hunted the alleged attacker.

Two suspects are being questioned in the investigation into January’s deadly siege of a Hyper Cacher kosher grocery store in Vincennes, a spokesperson for French prosecutors told CNN.

France is still under a state of emergency, so the initial report that the teacher had been assaulted prompted a swift response in a metropolitan area still on edge after last month’s massacre.

The case even prompted a visit by Education Minister Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, who vowed to boost security at France’s schools.

Seven assailants died in that attack and an eighth in police raids days later, but police are still searching for another chief suspect, Salah Abdeslam, who vanished after escaping to Belgium from Paris.

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ISIS’ French-language magazine Dar-al-Islam called in its November edition for its followers to kill teachers in the French education system, describing them as “enemies of Allah”.