Teacher 'made up story' about being stabbed by IS-inspired man at school

A nursery school teacher who said he was stabbed by a masked man claiming to be acting on behalf of the so-called Islamic State made up the story, French prosecutor have said.

Police were called after the teacher said he was attacked with a box-cutter or knife as he prepared for lessons at a school just north of Paris.

Authorities were told that as the man carried out the attack, he shouted: "This is Daesh (another term for Islamic State). This is a warning."

The report sparked a manhunt in the northern Paris suburb of Aubervilliers.

But authorities have now said that the whole story was invented.

Both the Paris prosecutor's office and the local prosecutor said the teacher was being questioned on Monday afternoon.

He was taken to hospital following the report early this morning as anti-terror police conducted a search for the "assailant".

France is still on high terror alert after last month's wave of suicide bombings and shootings that killed 130 people and left 350 injured.