US EditionPigs’ heads at French mosques left by foreign nationals
Two foreign nationals left nine pig heads outside mosques in the Paris region to incite religious hatred, with evidence suggesting foreign intelligence involvement, prosecutors said.
- Nine pigs' heads were discovered outside several mosques in Montreuil on September 9, 2025, alarming community leaders and prompting a police investigation into rising anti-Muslim hatred.
- Investigators found that two individuals bought the pigs' heads in Normandy, with the vehicle showing Serbian number plates, according to the prosecutor's office.
- Police Chief Laurent Nunez stated that the authorities are investigating potential incitement to hatred aggravated by racial or religious discrimination.
- The prosecutor's office indicated that the incident likely reflects a clear desire to cause unrest in France due to rising anti-Muslim sentiments.
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The pig heads discovered in front of mosques on Tuesday were laid down by foreigners. The Paris Public Prosecutor's Office sees it as a "manifest will to provoke trouble". This possible foreign interference recalls many precedents in the capital. - Pigheads in front of mosques: a possible interference that recalls several precedents (International).
Unknown perpetrators have laid pig heads in front of mosques in Paris. Traces of investigators lead to the Balkans. Are pro-Russian circles behind it? It wouldn't be the first time.
Police have opened a case of incitement to hatred after several pig heads were found outside mosques in the Paris area.
Foreign nationals placed pig heads outside Paris mosques, prosecutor says
A police investigation showed foreign nationals placed the pig heads that were found outside at least nine mosques in and around Paris on Tuesday, the Paris Prosecutor's office said on Wednesday.
The pig heads laid in front of mosques in the Paris region were by "persons of foreign nationality who immediately left the territory", said Wednesday, September 10, the Paris Public Prosecutor's Office, denouncing "a clear will to provoke trouble within the nation."
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