Tzion Saadon, a teacher at a Jewish school in the southern French city of Marseilles was stabbed on Wednesday by three people professing support for Islamic State, but his life was not in danger, prosecutors said.<br />Three people on two scooters, one of them wearing an Islamic State T-shirt, approached the teacher in the street, Marseilles prosecutor Brice Robin told Reuters.<br />The victim was reportedly seriously wounded but in stable condition.<br />"The three people insulted, threatened and then stabbed their victim in the arm and leg.<br />They were interrupted by the arrival of a car and fled," Robin added.<br />The knifing was the first attack directed at Jews since Friday's coordinated assault on Paris, but a series of attacks on Jews has occurred in various countries recently.
