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A teacher who claimed he was attacked by a knife-wielding man who shouted pro-ISIS remarks has admitted making up the story, it has been reported.

The nursery school teacher said he had been slashed in front of the Jean Perrin nursery school in the northern Paris suburb of Aubervilliers earlier today.

The teacher claimed his attacker shouted: "That's for Daesh , this is a warning" as he cut his throat.

However, it appears the man now invented the whole story, the French prosecutor announced this afternoon.

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The 45-year-old claimed to have been stabbed several times around 7am before morning classes by a man wearing gloves and white overalls.

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He said his alleged attacker was unarmed but used makeshift weapons he found in the school including scissors and a box cutter.

According to French broadcasters TF1 , the teacher has now admitted to stabbing himself.

An official source, who also confirmed the man has mutilated himself, told L'Express: "A new investigation is underway to determine why he was driven to lie. It is too early to say.

"The fact that he said the aggressor came with empty hands and used a pair of scissors he had found in the classroom was very troubling."

A prosecuting source confirmed that wasting police time was a criminal offence which could result in prosecution.

There are also strict anti-discrimination laws in France, which aim to try and stop people stigmatising minority groups, including Muslims.

The source added the personality of the teacher would be investigated to discover why he might have made the story up and he may be prosecuted for wasting police time.

Before the latest revelations, police had opened a case of attempted murder related to a terrorist organisation.

In the hours after the attack the Education minister Najat Vallaud-Belkacem described it as "very serious" and said: "We will strengthen security around this institution and elsewhere."

Ms Vallaud-Belkacem also tweeted: "All my support to the teacher attacked in a school in Aubervilliers, and all the staff. We are by their side."

She took the step of going down to the school on Monday morning.

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The November edition of Dar-al-Islam, IS’s French language magazine, called on followers to ‘kill teachers’, saying they were the ‘enemies of Allah’ and ‘in open conflict against the Muslim family’.

There have been dubious reports about ‘Islamic terrorism’ in France that turn out to be anything but.

They are often used for propaganda purposes, to try and make out that people are in constant danger from a homegrown ‘enemy within’.

The latest alleged incident comes a month after gunmen and suicide bombers killed 130 people in Paris an attack claimed by Islamic State.

Several of the perpetrators were later killed in a firefight with police in the same suburb as today's attack, Saint-Denis.

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Abdelhamid Abaaoud, 28, was among a group of terrorists found holed up in the rundown apartment just a few kilometres from the primary school.

Three suspects including IS operative Abaaoud and his cousin Hasna Aitboulahcen were killed when police commandos raided the flat.