Jewish teacher spared jail after faking ISIS knife attack

A Jewish teacher who fabricated a knife attack by Islamic State terrorists in France was today given a six month suspended prison sentence.

Tzion Saadon, 57, told his lies in November, a few days after 130 people were murdered during a single night of violence in Paris.

Inviting journalists to his home in Marseille, he said three men had assaulted him as they shouted Islamic slogans, and Death to Jews.

Showing of his ‘stomach wounds’, Saadon even said one of his attackers wore ‘an Isis T-shirt’, and displayed pictures of Mohamed Merah, the Al-Qaeda gunmen who murdered both Jews and Muslims in 2012.

But there were no independent witnesses to Saadon’s ordeal, and forensic examinations later proved he had caused the ‘knife slashes’ himself.

Saadon kept up his story throughout his trial in Marseille, but prosecutor Andre Ribes said: “The truth is he wasn’t assaulted in the way he says.”

President Francois Hollande himself had been among those who commented on the Saadon case last year, saying it was a “barbarous” example of rising anti-Semitism.