A teenager armed with a machete has attacked a Jewish teacher in southern France, invoking IS group and saying he had also planned to go after police.

The mass attacks on women in Cologne and other German cities on New Year’s Eve have prompted more than 500 criminal complaints, with Cologne investigations focused largely on asylum seekers or illegal migrants from north Africa, police have said.

Juergen Moellemann, a prominent German opposition politician accused of campaigning on anti-Semitic themes in last year’s national election, died in a parachute jump, just as prosecutors stepped up a finance investigation against him.