PARIS: Pig heads appeared outside at least nine mosques in and around Paris on Tuesday, authorities said, with French President Emmanuel Macron’s name scrawled on five of them.
Authorities did not say who could be behind the attacks but pledged support for France’s Muslim population at a time of rising anti-Islamic sentiment. France has Europe’s largest population of Muslims, over 6 million, for whom eating pork is forbidden.
“I want our Muslim compatriots to be able to practice their faith in peace,” Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau told reporters.
Paris police chief Laurent Nunez said he could not rule out foreign interference to unsettle France as it faces a fiscal and political crisis.
“We can’t avoid drawing parallels with previous actions, which often took place at night and were proven to be acts of foreign interference,” he said.
