A Jewish teacher in Marseilles who <3a>claimed he was attacked by Isis supporters has been arrested for allegedly lying about the attack.

In November it was reported that the teacher was stabbed outside a Jewish cultural centre by three men, one of whom wore an ISIS t-shirt.

The reported attack came just days after the terror attacks in Paris in which 129 people were killed and over 350 were injured.

A similar attack against a Jewish man outside a shul in Marseilles earlier this year is not under question and Jewish community leaders in Marseilles have been torn over whether Jews should continue to openly wear kippot in light of ongoing antisemitic attacks in the area.

Tzvi Ammar, president of the local office of the Consistoire, the organization responsible for religious services, has said that Jewish men should “remove the kippah during these troubled times” because “the preservation of life is sacrosanct”.