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| French teacher invented Aubervilliers school attack | French teacher invented Aubervilliers school attack |
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| A teacher at a French preschool who said he had been stabbed by a man shouting "Islamic State" has admitted he made the story up, prosecutors say. | |
| The teacher said he had been attacked while alone in a classroom in Aubervilliers, a suburb of Paris. | The teacher said he had been attacked while alone in a classroom in Aubervilliers, a suburb of Paris. |
| The local prosecutor's office said he was now being questioned as to why he lied about the incident. | |
| France remains on high alert following the terror attacks in Paris on 13 November that left 130 people dead. | France remains on high alert following the terror attacks in Paris on 13 November that left 130 people dead. |
| The 45-year-old teacher has been treated in hospital for knife wounds to his side and neck. | The 45-year-old teacher has been treated in hospital for knife wounds to his side and neck. |
| According to his account, a man had attacked him with a box cutter or scissors and had shouted: "This is for Daesh [Islamic State]. It's a warning". | According to his account, a man had attacked him with a box cutter or scissors and had shouted: "This is for Daesh [Islamic State]. It's a warning". |
| The incident sparked a manhunt in the northern suburb, as police tried to track down the alleged attacker. | |
| The anti-terrorism branch of the Paris prosecutor's office also opened an investigation for attempted murder in relation to a terrorist act. | |
| Classes at the school were cancelled. | |
| Last month, the Islamic State's French-language magazine Dar-al-Islam recently urged followers to kill teachers in France, describing them as "enemies of Allah" for teaching secularism, AFP news agency reports. | |
| Aubervilliers is in the Seine-Saint-Denis department of the Ile-de-France region. |