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Al Jazeera
Lifestyle
Phineas Rueckert

French Muslims on alert after severed pig heads found at nine mosques

Muslims in France are shaken after heads of pigs, considered impure in Islam, were found on September 9, 2025 at several mosques in Paris [File: Bertrand Guay/AFP]

Paris, France – On an early September morning, a pig’s head, covered in blood, was discovered at the doorstep of the Javel mosque in the heart of Paris. On it, a name had been scrawled in blue ink: Macron.

A couple of kilometres (about a mile) from the Eiffel Tower, the mosque is a place of worship for a diverse community of Muslims with Lebanese, Algerian, Iranian and other roots, which has long coexisted with neighbours in a leafy district of the French capital.

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