Pig heads deposited in front of several mosques in Paris and in the suburbs

At least five pig heads were discovered this Tuesday morning in front of mosques in Paris and near suburbs. In the 15th, 18th and 20th arrondissements of the capital, but also in Montrouge and in Montrouge, these sordid staging clearly aim to intimidate and humiliate the faithful. On one of them, the word “Macron” was even painted in blue. Police prefect Laurent Nuñez denounced “abject acts” and announced the opening of an investigation for “provocation to aggravated hatred”. “All my support for managers and the faithful of the mosques affected by these unbearable provocations. Taking places of worship is unfathomable cowardice, ”reacted on X Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau.

These pig heads deposits are not simple “isolated provocations”: they reflect now uninhibited Islamophobia, where the most violent transgression is legitimized by months, even years, of public stigma of Muslims. The incessant media controversies, the words of elected officials aimed at the visibility of Islam have contributed to normalizing a deleterious atmosphere. These acts are therefore the extreme mirror of an ideological climate which, too often, remains unpunished.