Teacher in France stabbed in class

The nursery school teacher said he had been slashed in front of the Jean Perrin nursery school in the northern Paris suburb of Aubervilliers earlier today.

A local official said there were no children present at the time of the attack but other staff members were in the building.

The teacher, who is hospitalized with nonlife-threatening injuries, was in class in the Paris suburb of Aubervilliers when the man attacked, French newspaper Le Parisien reported.

“This is a warning, this is only the beginning”, the attacker said, according to a statement from Bobigny district prosecutor’s office.

In a related incident, two eyewitnesses told broadcaster that the alleged mastermind behind the attack, Belgium national Abdelhamid Abaaoud, was spotted on the Greek island of Leros two months ago, with one observer claiming he even arrived at a hospital to receive treatment for a leg wound.

The primary school teacher was reported to have been stabbed in the side and throat with a box cutter and scissors by an unidentified man.

The attack comes almost a month since the “Islamic State” inspired terror attacks in Paris, which claimed 130 lives.

“It’s an act of great gravity”, she said.

French schools have imposed strict security measures since previous attacks in January, with doors locked during the day, identity checks for visitors and periodic bag searches.

In the November 30 edition of its propaganda magazine, Islamic State issued a call to arms against French schools and criticised a secular charter that every French school must display and teach and which, in many schools, all families must sign.