Teen allegedly slashed Jewish teacher in France in name of ISIS

PARIS - A French prosecutor says the teenager armed with a machete who slashed a Jewish teacher claimed to act in the name of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.

Brice Robin, the Marseille prosecutor, says the boy told officers he planned to stab police next. The 15-year-old, who Robin described as a Turkish Kurd, was arrested shortly after the teacher was injured Monday morning.

Robin described the teen as an excellent student who had shown no signs of radicalization.

Tensions are climbing in France less than two months after attacks by Islamic extremists in Paris left 130 people dead. France's interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, described the slashing as a "revolting anti-Semitic aggression."

Two churches were burned Sunday, and a boar's head and racist inscriptions were found Friday at Perpignan's main mosque.