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The animal was found this Saturday morning by the faithful of the Franco-Turkish association, which manages the mosque. The Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, denounces an “intolerable” act.
The body of a boar was discovered during the night from Friday to Saturday in Saint-Usage (Côte-d'Or) in front of the premises of the “Franco-Turkish association where there is a mosque”. The animal was dropped off Friday evening around 11 p.m. The gendarmes immediately went to the scene and an investigation into discriminatory public insult was opened.
Retailleau denounces an “intolerable” act
The Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, denounced this Saturday morning on X “an intolerable anti-Muslim act”. “I want to express to the believers in these communities my support and that of the State. Attacking places of worship is extremely cowardly and amounts to barbaric violence,” he added.
Last night the Franco-Turkish association of Saint-Usage which houses a mosque was targeted by an intolerable anti-Muslim act, two days after the attempted fire of the Amiens Mosque, for which an investigation is underway. I want to express to believers these…
— Bruno Retailleau (@BrunoRetailleau) https://twitter.com/BrunoRetailleau/status/1852622720871088154?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
This macabre discovery comes two days after the attempted fire at the Amiens mosque, for which the “ongoing investigation” was keen to clarify the Minister of the Interior.
This type of act is not foreign to the Muslim community. At the end of 2023, the corpse of a wild boar was found on the gates of the mosque of Vigneux-sur-Seine, in Essonne, while last March, the head of a wild boar was placed near the mosque from Contrexéville (Vosges).
