French teacher 'invented' IS attack

EducationHQ News Team

By EducationHQ News Team
Published December 15, 2015

A French nursery school teacher who claimed he was stabbed in his classroom by an Islamic State supporter has admitted to prosecutors that he invented the story.

PARIS, Dec 14 - The 45-year-old teacher at a school in Aubervilliers, northeast of Paris, was hospitalised on Monday with light ...

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