Overview

• Serbian police detained 11 Serbian nationals in coordinated raids in Belgrade and Velika Plana, holding them in Smederevo ahead of questioning.
• A twelfth suspect identified as M.G. remains at large and is accused of training the group on the instructions of a foreign intelligence service.
• Authorities say the acts spanned April to September, including green paint on Paris’s Holocaust memorial, synagogues and a Jewish restaurant, pigs’ heads at at least nine mosques, and “concrete skeletons” placed at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate.
• The detainees are to be brought before prosecutors on suspected offences that include racial discrimination and espionage as French and German investigations proceed with Serbian cooperation.
• French investigators traced a vehicle with Serbian plates and a Croatian phone number to the mosque incidents, while earlier French cases probed possible foreign interference, with Russia often cited by officials and media but not confirmed in court.