Teacher assaulted by attacker citing Islamic State

Earlier on Monday, other French officials told how the teacher had reported that a hooded assailant claiming a link to the militant Islamist group had attacked him as he prepared for classes.

This stabbing comes weeks after a separate incident when a Jewish teacher in Marseille was also attacked by ISIS supporters.

A teacher has been stabbed at a primary school in Paris in an ISIS-inspired attack, according to French media reports.

Security was tightened at French schools in the wake of the November 13 terror attacks in and around Paris that left 130 people dead.

Both the Paris prosecutor’s workplace & the local prosecutor stated the instructor was being questioned Monday. afternoon, & in that the tale concerning the attack had been based mostly on his testimony. The assailant remains at large, and the motive for the attack is unclear, authorities said. He reportedly used a sharp item found in the classroom to slash the teacher.

Philippe Galli, the top government official for the Seine-Saint-Denis region, told reporters that no children were present during the attack as it occurred before classes began, the AP reported.

Education Minister Najat Vallaud-Belkacem hurried to the school this morning, and called the incident “an act of great gravity”.

Daesh is the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State group.

According to the AFP News Agency, a recent edition of Isis’s French-language propaganda magazine, Dar-al-Islam, specifically urged followers in France to kill teachers, describing them as “enemies of Allah”.

The teacher was treated at a hospital for minor wounds to his side and neck.

Strict security measures have been imposed at French schools since previous attacks in January, with doors locked during the day, ID checks for visitors and random bag searches.