PARIS (AP) — A preschool teacher who claimed to have been attacked by a masked assailant invoking Islamic State made up the story, French prosecutors said Monday.
The attack reported Monday morning by the teacher set off a manhunt in the northern Paris suburb of Aubervilliers.
Both the Paris prosecutor’s office and the local prosecutor said the teacher was being questioned Monday afternoon, and that the story about the attack had been based on his testimony.
The false report comes as France remains under a state of emergency after the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris by Islamic State-linked extremists that left 130 people dead and hundreds wounded. A few weeks later, IS urged its followers to attack teachers in France, saying the secular education system was poisoning young minds.
Aubervilliers, a northern suburb, is only 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) from the apartment where the suspected organizer of the Nov. 13 attacks was killed in a police raid.
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. Families dropping off or picking up children are not permitted to linger near schools’ entrances, and children are not allowed to wait outside for the doors to open.
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No doubt Fox News is going wall-to-wall with this debunking story.
Good Heavens. I’m just disappointed they have the same kind of idiots in France that make up shit like the wingnuts here in the States do, almost on a regular basis.
PARIS (AP) — A preschool teacher who claimed to have been attacked by a masked assailant invoking Islamic State made up the story, French prosecutors said Monday.
A hint that something was off: the letter “É” that he claimed they’d carved into his face was backwards.
That sounds more like it. In her original complaint she said the attacker said “This is Daesh” and stabbed her. But the problem in that is Daesh is pejorative for ISIS ( it is not as many report the Arabic acronym for ISIS ) and it made no sense for a person acting out of that groups interests would use that term.