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French man cooks up Islamic State attack story
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A French nursery school teacher who claimed on Monday that he was stabbed in his classroom by an Islamic State supporter has admitted to prosecutors that he invented the story.
A French nursery school teacher who claimed on Monday that he was stabbed in his classroom by an Islamic State supporter has admitted to prosecutors that he invented the story.
The 45-year-old teacher at a school in Aubervilliers, northeast of Paris, was hospitalised with light stab wounds in his side and throat. The local prosecutor said he is being questioned on why he lied about the attack.
He had said that he was attacked on Monday by a man wielding a box cutter and scissors who cited the Islamic State jihadist group, sources in the police and prosecutor’s office said.
The Islamic State had 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”.
Islamic State’s 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”.
“This education, in the case of France in particular, is a means of propoganda 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,” it said.
Last year, 17 people were killed when jihadists targeted the Charlie Hebdo magazine, killing several journalists and cartoonists 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 who may have been involved. Education minister Najat Vallaud-Belkacem said the terrorist threat was “real and permanent (and) all public places deserve protection, particularly schools”. Security have been beefed up.
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