A teenager who attacked a Jewish teacher in Marseille is a Turkish citizen of Kurdish origin who said he acted in the name of the jihadist group Islamic State, a French prosecutor says.
"He claimed to have acted in the name of Allah and the Islamic State, repeating several times to have done on behalf of Daech (Islamic State)," the Marseille prosecutor, Brice Robin, told a news conference on Monday.
The 15-year-old, who was armed with a machete and a knife, wounded the teacher slightly before being stopped and arrested on Monday.
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve earlier called the attack a "brutal anti-semitic aggression".
France has the highest Jewish and the Muslim populations in Europe.
Violent racial incidents have been in the spotlight since Islamic State claimed a co-ordinated series of attacks in Paris on November 13 in which 130 people were killed.
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