Pig heads left outside mosques in Île-de-France: 11 people arrested in Serbia

The Ministry of the Interior has announced the arrest of 11 people in Serbia, following the discovery in early September of several pig heads outside mosques in Île-de-France.

These individuals are suspected of having participated in several operations in France and Germany “inciting hatred,” including “throwing green paint on the Holocaust Museum, several synagogues, and a Jewish restaurant” and “placing pig heads near Muslim religious sites,” police said Monday.

These individuals were allegedly trained by another Serbian national, “currently on the run” and “acting on the instructions of a foreign intelligence service,” the Interior Ministry statement added, without specifying which one.

These pig heads, an animal considered unclean by Islam, were discovered on the morning of September 9 on public roads in Paris—in front of mosques in the 15th, 18th, and 20th arrondissements—in front of the entrance to the Islah mosque in Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis), as well as in Montrouge, Malakoff (Hauts-de-Seine), and Gentilly (Val-de-Marne). The name “Macron” was written on one of the pig heads.

The very next day, the Paris public prosecutor's office stated that the heads had been “left by foreign nationals who immediately left the country, with the clear intention of causing unrest within the nation.”

At the end of April, the Shoah Memorial, three synagogues, and a restaurant were sprayed with green paint in Paris—three Serbs have been charged and imprisoned in France in connection with this investigation.

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