{"id":18698,"date":"2025-09-10T03:04:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T03:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=18698"},"modified":"2025-09-10T03:04:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T03:04:16","slug":"pigs-heads-left-outside-mosques-in-paris-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=18698","title":{"rendered":"Pigs&#8217; heads left outside mosques in Paris region"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>At least nine pigs&#8217; heads were found outside several mosques in the Paris region on Tuesday, the city&#8217;s police chief said \u2014\u00a0an incident that has sparked alarm over rising anti-Muslim hatred.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pigs&#8217; heads have been left in front of certain mosques \u2014\u00a0Four in Paris and five in the inner suburbs,&#8221; Laurent Nunez told a press conference, adding that officers were not &#8220;ruling out the possibility of finding more&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Police have opened a probe into incitement to hatred aggravated by racial or religious discrimination, Nunez said, calling the acts &#8220;despicable&#8221;. The consumption of pork is forbidden in Islam as the meat is believed to be impure.<\/p>\n<p>Several of the heads had the surname of President Emmanuel Macron scrawled on them in blue ink, the Paris prosecutor&#8217;s office told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>Nunez said there could be parallels with past incidents linked to &#8220;foreign interference&#8221; but urged &#8220;extreme caution&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In early June, three Serbs were charged over the vandalism of Jewish sites in a case investigators suspect was backed by Russia.<\/p>\n<p>France is home to the largest Muslim community in the European Union, as well as the largest Jewish population outside Israel and the United States.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least nine pigs&#8217; heads were found outside several mosques in the Paris region on Tuesday, the city&#8217;s police chief said \u2014\u00a0an incident that has sparked alarm over rising anti-Muslim hatred. &#8220;Pigs&#8217; heads have been left in front of certain mosques \u2014\u00a0Four in Paris and five in the inner suburbs,&#8221; Laurent Nunez told a press [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}