Prosecutor: French teacher lied about masked attack
By LORI HINNANT, Associated Press
Dec 14, 2015 10:01 AM CST
Police officers patrol near a Paris suburb Aubervilliers pre-school, after a masked assailant with a box-cutter and scissors who mentioned the Islamic State group attacked a teacher, Monday, Dec.14, 2015. The assailant remains at large, and the motive for the attack in the town of Aubervilliers is unclear,...   (Associated Press)

PARIS (AP) — The Paris prosecutor's office says a teacher who claimed to have been attacked by a masked assailant invoking Islamic State made up the story.

The attack reported Monday by the teacher set off a manhunt in the northern Paris suburb of Aubervilliers.

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

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