A French nursery school teacher was attacked Monday by a man wielding a box cutter and scissors, citing a “warning” from the Islamic State jihadist group, sources in the police and prosecutor’s office say.
The assault comes 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 man was stabbed in the side and throat while preparing for his class at a school in Aubervilliers, northeast of Paris, but his life was not in danger, a police source said.
The attacker was dressed in overalls and a balaclava and arrived without a weapon but grabbed what appeared to be a box cutter that was lying in the classroom as well as a pair of scissors.
According to local prosecutors the man shouted: “This is Daesh. This is a warning.” Daesh is another name for IS.
The attacker fled after stabbing the teacher and the probe has been taken over by anti-terrorism investigators.
— AFP
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