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Published on 22 November 2015
Teacher from French Jewish school stabbed by three ISIS supporters who yelled out anti-Semitic slurs: officials
By Tobias Salinger published in the Daily News November 19, 2015
A teacher from a French Jewish school was stabbed by three Islamic State supporters who shouted anti-Semitic slurs during the assault in Marseille Wednesday night, officials said.
The attackers, one of whom displayed an ISIS T-shirt, rode up on two scooters toward the kippa-clad man and stabbed him in the street near the school and a synagogue around 8 p.m. local time, police prefect Laurent Nunez told Agence France-Presse. The history and geography teacher’s injuries aren’t life-threatening, but the three suspects were still at large Wednesday.
Another one of the assailants forced the 57-year-old victim to look at a cellphone picture of Mohamed Merah, a homegrown terrorist who killed seven people in a 2012 attack targeting a different Jewish school in southern France, Marseille public prosecutor Brice Robin said.
"The three people insulted, threatened and then stabbed their victim in the arm and leg. They were interrupted by the arrival of a car and fled," Robin said.
Michele Teboul, the regional president of the Jewish group CRIF, told AFP she's "worried" about further attacks in the area.
"I'm very shocked. because this is the second incident of its kind in a very short time," Teboul said... Read more.