A 57-year-old Jewish teacher was taken to hospital following a knife attack by three youths professing to be ISIL supporters in the French city of Marseille.The victim was stabbed in the arm and leg but escaped serious injury.This happened outside the 57-year-old man’s home and next to the local synagogue and is the second seemingly anti-Semitc stabbing in Marseille in a matter of weeks.
“The youths who attacked him were on scooters. They showed him Mohamed Merah’s photo on their phone. They uttered anti-semitic insults, one of them showed that he was wearing an ISIL T-shirt. They knocked him to the ground and one of them attacked him with a knife,” said Michelle Teboul from CRIF French Jewish Institution
Mohamed Merah was a homegrown Islamist militant who killed seven people including three children in a series of attacks in southern France in 2012.Wednesday’s stabbing comes as tensions are high in France which has been under a state of emergency since Friday’s attacks in Paris which were claimed by ISIL militants.
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