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Workers who were building a mosque in southwestern France on Monday discovered a pork head and animal blood at the entrance to the site, as part of an alleged attack on the mosque.
The attack is only the latest in a series of attacks on Muslim places of worship over the past ten years.
The construction of the mosque in the small town of Bergerac – known for its wines of Bordeaux and its badociation with the literary figure Cyrano de Bergerac – is disputed since its first proposal in 2017 and finally approved in October 2018, despite the local generalization opposition.
"The authors coated the walls with beast blood and placed a pork head cut in half," said AFP Bergerac's attorney general.
The vandalism occurred during the night and was only discovered when the workers arrived in the morning.
"This construction project is controversial," said Charollois. "There have been administrative and legal appeals to stop him, so there are many tracks to follow."
Bergerac police commissioner Frederic Perissat "has strongly denounced and condemned these acts, which violate our freedom of conscience and expression and are contrary to the principles of separation of the Church and the Church. State "and called for" mutual respect "within the community.
In recent days, posters said: "Bergerac is the city of Périgord, not Islam!" – referring to the former name of the Dordogne – had been stuck around the city, according to its mayor, Daniel Garrigue.
"I can not say that they are connected, but I notice that they are in the same spirit," Garrigue said. In France, desecrating a religious establishment is a crime punishable by up to seven years imprisonment.
The attack on the Bergerac site came less than two weeks after an armed man killed 50 Muslims in Christchurch, New Zealand, and wounded 50 others in a shootout in two mosques.
Antisemitic attacks
It's not just mosques that have been targeted. Earlier this year, 80 graves were vandalized in a Jewish cemetery in eastern France, local authorities said Tuesday on the eve of national demonstrations against the resurgence of anti-Semitic attacks.
The damage was discovered in a cemetery in the village of Quatzenheim, near the border with Germany, in the Alsace region, announced the regional security office in a statement.
The photos show the Nazi symbols in spray-painted blue paint on the damaged tombs, one of which bears the words "Elsbadisches Schwarzen Wolfe" ("Alsatian Black Wolves"), a separatist group linked to neo-Nazis in the 1970s.
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