French nursery teacher fabricates attack by knife-wielding IS jihadist
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A TEACHER in Paris who yesterday claimed to have been attacked by a masked assailant invoking the Islamic State group made up the whole story, the city’s prosecutor’s office said.
The attack, which was reported yesterday by the teacher, set off a manhunt in the northern Paris suburb of Aubervilliers.
Both the Paris prosecutor’s office and the local prosecutor said the teacher was being questioned yesterday afternoon.
Initial reports by sources from the police and prosecutor’s office said the nursery school teacher was attacked by a man wielding a box cutter and scissors, citing a “warning” from the Islamic State jihadist group.
The allegations came after IS in November urged its followers to kill teachers in the French education system for teaching secularism and being “in open war against the Muslim family.”
The 45-year-old teacher claimed he had been stabbed in the side and throat while preparing for his class at a school in Aubervilliers, northeast of Paris.
He said that the attacker was dressed in overalls and a balaclava, and arrived without a weapon but grabbed what he thought was a box cutter that was lying in the classroom as well as a pair of scissors.
Local prosecutors said they were told the attacker shouted: “This is Daesh. This is a warning.”
Daesh is another name for the IS group.
The teacher initially claimed that he had not recognized the voice of the attacker.
The Islamic State’s French-language magazine Dar-al-Islam called in its November edition for followers to kill French teachers in the French education system, describing them as “enemies of Allah.”
“This education, in the case of France in particular, is a means of propaganda used to impose the corrupt way of thought established by the Judeo-masonry,” it said.
“Muslims must know the French education system is built against religion and Islam as the only religion of truth cannot cohabit with this fanatic secularism.”
France remains on high alert a month after a wave of shootings and suicide bombings at Paris nightspots killed 130 people and left 350 injured.
The November 13 massacre was the second major attack on French soil in less than a year after 17 people were killed when jihadists targeted the Charlie Hebdo magazine and a Jewish supermarket in January.
Last month’s attacks saw France impose a three-month state of emergency and led to a Europe-wide manhunt for suspects.
Security has also been boosted at schools.
Education Minister Najat Vallaud-Belkacem visited the school where the attack was alleged to have taken place, saying forces would “continue to reinforce security at schools.”
Rachel Schneider of the main primary school teachers’ union SNUipp said IS threats had alarmed staff.
“We have received calls from colleagues who are very worried. They don’t think there will be an organized attack, but they fear this message of murderous madness will inspire unstable people to act,” she said.
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