A Jewish teacher in the French southern city of Marseille was reportedly stabbed by Islamic State supporters on Wednesday, days after the jihadist terror group took credit for the killing of 129 people in the Nov. 13 Paris attacks.
According to reports, the suspects allegedly made anti-Semitic comments before stabbing the Chabad-Lubavitch school teacher. One of the suspects was apparently wearing an Islamic State T-shirt.
Additionally, a suspect also displayed a picture on his cell phone of Mohamed Merah, the French Muslim terrorist behind the murder of four Jews at a Jewish day school in Toulouse in 2012.
“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,” Marseilles prosecutor Brice Robin told Reuters.
The 57-year-old teacher, who was wearing a yarmulke at the time of the attack, was evacuated to a local hospital and the wounds are not expected to be life-threatening.
The UEJF Jewish students’ union said the victim, a history and geography teacher, was stabbed three times. According to the Guardian, Michele Teboul, regional president of the Jewish representative group CRIF, said, “I’m very shocked because this is the second incident of its kind in a very short time.”
