Marseille // A Jewish teacher in France who claimed he was attacked by ISIL extremists has been accused of lying to police and was taken into custody on Wednesday, .
The man invited the press to his house in Marseille in southern France the day after the supposed attack in November, saying he had been beaten by three men claiming to represent the extremist group.
A police source confirmed on Wednesday that the man had been arrested for allegedly fabricating the story.
He is not the only French teacher to be accused of lying about an ISIL attack.
In January, a nursery school teacher was sent for psychiatric tests after admitting he lied about an attack in his classroom.
The 45-year-old man in Aubervilliers, northeast of Paris, initially said a man had burst into his classroom and cut him with a box cutter and scissors. He later admitted inventing the story and cutting himself on the neck and side.
The cases came with France still on edge in the wake of the ISIL-claimed attacks in Paris that killed 130 people in November.
There was another attack in Marseille in January, when a teacher wearing a kippa - a Jewish skullcap - was set upon by a self-radicalised teenager.
It was the latest in a series of anti-Semitic incidents in the port city, prompting the city's top Jewish leader, Zvi Ammar, to call on Jewish men and boys to stop wearing the kippa "until better days".
"Unfortunately for us, we are targeted. As soon as we are identified as Jewish we can be assaulted and even risk death," he said.
* Agence France-Presse
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