Nine pig heads were discovered this week outside the mosques in Paris, in what community leaders condemned as shocking Islamophobic acts, Watchman reported. Incidents come when France has a sharp increase in anti -Muslim hatred since the beginning of the Gaza War in October 2023.
According to the French Ministry of the Interior, between Muslim incidents between January and May 2025, they increased by 75% compared to the same period last year with attacks on individuals. The EU Fundamental Rights agency also described the increase in Islamophobia and anti -Semitism in several European countries since the beginning of the conflict.
He was condemned by convicts from political and religious leaders around Paris. President Emmanuel Macron met with representatives of the Muslim community to express their support, while the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo said that the city had taken legal steps and condemned incidents as “racist acts”.
Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau described the attacks as “outrageous” and “totally unacceptable”. He added, “I want our Muslim compatriots to practice their faith in peace.”
Chems-Eddine Hafiz, Rector of the Great Mosque in Paris, described the discovery of pig heads as “a new and sad scene in the rise of anti-Muslim hatred”. Bassira Camara, head of the Anti -discrimination group Addam, warned of further escalating: “We will raise the alarm for several months and we are not heard. What will be the next step? Throw pigs on worship or physically attack?”
At the beginning of June, three Serbian nationals were accused of vandalism of Jewish sites, if investigators could be supported by Russia, the report said.
France organizes the largest Muslim community in the European Union and the largest Jewish population outside Israel and the US, making it the central point of growing municipal tension.
Meanwhile, French President Emmanuel Macron appointed a loyalist Sebastien Lecorn, a one -time conservative protector who gathered for his presidential during 2017, as Prime Minister on Tuesday, and with the expectations of being able to deal with the left.
The choice of Lecorn, 39, suggests that Macron’s determination to push with a minority government that does not wipe its agenda of the pro-business reform, according to which business taxes and rich were reduced and increased their retirement age.
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