Paris teacher stabbed by masked man who yelled about ISIS, prosecutor says

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Paris teacher stabbed by masked man who yelled about ISIS, prosecutor says
By Pierre Buet and Faith Karimi, CNN
Updated 5:41 AM ET, Mon December 14, 2015

Paris (CNN)—A masked man yelled support for ISIS as he stabbed a French kindergarten teacher in the throat Monday morning, authorities said.

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.

It said the unarmed attacker had on a balaclava, and used a sharp item found in class to slash the teacher. The students were not in class at the time, the paper said.

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

The Paris anti-terror prosecutor's office is investigating.

France remains under a state of emergency following last month's Islamist extremists attacks that left 130 people dead in Paris.

ISIS claimed responsibility for the attacks. In response, President Francois Hollande vowed to destroy the terror group and intensify an international military campaign against ISIS territory in Syria and Iraq.

Shortly after the November attacks, French warplanes pounded ISIS targets in the terror group's northern Syrian stronghold of Raqqa.

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World  |  Mon Dec 14, 2015 4:09pm IST
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French teacher attacked by man claiming Islamic State link
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A hooded man claiming to be acting for Islamic State attacked a nursery school teacher with a knife-like weapon as he prepared for classes in a school north of Paris, French officials said on Monday.

The male teacher was taken to hospital after the attack by a man wielding a knife or box-cutter who fled the scene after the attack at about 0630 GMT, said the official, adding that anti-terrorism officials were investigating.

According to one judiciary official, the assailant slashed at the teacher's neck and said the act was a signal from the Islamic State group, also referred to in France by the name Daesh.

"This is Daesh, it's a warning," the attacker told his victim, the official said, adding the victim's life was apparently not in danger.
 
France's education minister and a local government prefect visited the premises of the school in Aubervilliers, in the Saint-Denis region just north of the capital. Classes at the school were cancelled.

The prefect, who was not introduced by name, told reporters it was too early to draw conclusions about the character of the attack, noting that the assailant, wearing a balaclava, had apparently found the weapon at the school premises.
 
The incident came a month after gunmen and suicide bombers killed 130 people in Paris an attack claimed by Islamic State, the militant Islamist group which controls swathes of Syria and Iraq and has vowed to attack France, a member of the coalition of countries conducting air strikes against it.
 
It also came days after a knifing in London's underground urban rail network which police are treating as a terrorist attack.