A masked man yelled support for ISIS as he stabbed a French kindergarten teacher in the throat Monday, authorities said.
The teacher, who is hospitalized with nonlife-threatening injuries, was in class in the Paris suburb of Aubervilliers when the man attacked, French newspaper Le Parisien reported.
The students were not in class at the time, it said.
“This is a warning, this is only the beginning,” the attacker said, according to a statement from Bobigny district prosecutor’s office.
The man used a sharp object similar to a box cutter before fleeing the scene, authorities said.
Le Parisien reported the unarmed attacker had on a balaclava, and used an item found in class to slash the teacher.
France on alert
France remains under a state of emergency following last month’s Islamist extremists attacks that left 130 people dead in Paris.
ISIS claimed responsibility for the attacks. In response, President Francois Hollande vowed to destroy the terror group and intensify an international military campaign against ISIS territory in Syria and Iraq.
Shortly after the November attacks, French warplanes pounded ISIS targets in the terror group’s northern Syrian stronghold of Raqqa.