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Terrorism investigators called in after man claimed his attacker stabbed him “in the name of Daesh”
A TEACHER has admitted making up a story that he was stabbed by a man who claimed he was acting for Islamic State.
His claims had already prompted the Minister for Education to begin an investigation into an act of terrorism.
However during the course of a later interview the 45-year-old teacher admitted that he had made the whole thing up.
On Monday morning he was admitted to hospital with superficial injuries to his neck and side and claimed that he had been attacked by a knife-wielding man in his maternelle classroom in Auberville, before the children were due to arrive.
He said the man, supposedly dressed as a painter with gloves and a mask, picked up a knife that he found in the classroom and and shouted: “This is for Daesh, it’s a warning.”
Paris’s anti-terrorist section was brought into investigate due to the country’s high level of alert.
Children at the school were today being taught by a replacement teacher.
One parent who described the teacher, who had worked at the school for 20 years, as “very important to the life of the school” and a man “who would not tolerate impoliteness”.
