This 41-year-old teacher was injured in the hand and head. franceinfo reports that his life is not in danger.
He left the hospital on Saturday, November 14, the day after the assault.
According to his account, the events took place shortly before 8 p.m., while he was in his office at the university.
Suspicious noises caught his attention and startled him.
He then left the room and headed toward the corridor. It was on that route, he explains, that he was attacked.
The individual was wearing a balaclava as well as a surgical mask and was holding a box cutter.
According to this source, the attacker struck twice with the box cutter, once to the left hand and once to the back of the skull, then fled.
Injured in the hand and the back of the skull, the teacher managed to take shelter in his office.
The vice president thus recounts an attack that occurred within the university itself, late on Friday afternoon.
The investigation has been assigned to the Versailles judicial police.
The teacher's account and the details provided to AFP by a police source describe the same act: blows with a box cutter to the hand and skull, followed by the perpetrator's flight.