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Rabat – A pig’s head was found in front of the entrance to the General Consulate of Morocco in Corsica on Sunday at around 2 p.m.
The consulate is located in the municipality of Biguglia. Police officers from the Departmental Directorate of Public Security (DDSP) were called to document the incident and conduct initial investigations, according to Consican news reports.
Reports explain that no damage or markings appear to have been discovered at the scene, adding that the animal’s head was quickly removed from the site and the forecourt of the building housing the consulate was cleaned.
While the motives behind the act remain unclear, this is not the first time the Moroccan consulate has been subject to such acts of aggression.
In March 2016, two pig heads were found attached to the fence of the Moroccan ambassador’s residence in French capital Paris.
The Moroccan embassy, situated in Neuilly-sur-Seine to the west of Paris, filed a formal complaint to police.
The incident was one of many in the increasing wave of Islamophobic assaults that were rampant in France.
The Moroccan ambassador himself experienced religiously motivated attacks, when vandals sprayed offensive graffiti on his residence back in 2013.
The incident coincided with other attacks where pig heads were placed outside mosques in various French cities.
There has been a noticeable surge in actions targeting Muslims following the gun and suicide attacks in Paris in November 2015, which resulted in the death of 130 people.
In that same year in the UK, police arrested two individuals suspected of leaving a pig’s head outside an Islamic school in Portsmouth in January of this year.
