Overview

• Nine pig heads were found on September 9 outside mosques in Paris and nearby communes including Montreuil, Montrouge, Malakoff and Gentilly, according to the Paris prosecutor.
• Several heads bore the word “MACRON” written in blue ink, and one was discovered in a suitcase in Paris’s 18th arrondissement.
• The brigade criminelle is investigating suspected public provocation to hatred and alleged acts committed to serve the interests of a foreign power.
• Leads include a Normandy farmer’s sale of about ten pig heads to two men using a vehicle reportedly with Serbian plates and a Croatian phone line tracked past the Franco‑Belgian border the same morning.
• Authorities report no arrests to date, and political leaders as well as Muslim community representatives have condemned the acts and called for the perpetrators to be identified and punished.