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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFrench teacher made up ISIS-linked stabbing
PARISA kindergarten teacher in suburban Paris admitted to fabricating a story that he was stabbed Monday by a masked man who invoked Islamic State, French police and prosecutors office said.
The teacher initially told authorities that an attacker, dressed in a painters uniform with his face concealed, entered an elementary school located in the north suburb of Aubervilliers on Monday morning at around 7:10 a.m., police said. The teacher alleged the attacker then assaulted him with a box cutter and scissors found inside the classroom, declaring it was an act of warning from Islamic State.
The accusations set off a scramble by government and law enforcement, showing how jittery France has become in the wake of the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris that left 130 people dead. ..................(more)
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/teacher-stabbed-in-paris-by-attacker-invoking-islamic-state-2015-12-14
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French teacher made up ISIS-linked stabbing (Original Post)
marmar
Dec 2015
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ucrdem
(15,512 posts)1. Glad it got straightened out.
Strange story. I would have thought it was some kind of campaign stunt except that it happened today and the election was yesterday.
Person 2713
(3,263 posts)2. What an attention starved dick head
oberliner
(58,724 posts)3. So was he actually attacked by anyone?
Or did he stab himself?
marmar
(76,982 posts)4. Story says the wounds were self-inflicted
oberliner
(58,724 posts)5. Very strange
What a weird thing to do.
951-Riverside
(7,234 posts)6. When I heard "male kindergarten teacher" ...I began to have my doubts
It just seemed off.
Not that there is anything wrong with males teaching children of that age, I just had some questions about the guy.