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00:00This cell phone video captures a man leaving a severed pig's head just outside a mosque
00:05in Paris.
00:06It's one of nine mosques that were targeted in and around the French capital earlier this
00:11month.
00:12France has Europe's largest Muslim population, and eating pork is forbidden by Islam, and
00:17at the time, French police said the pig heads had been placed there by foreign nationals
00:21who immediately left the country.
00:23Eleven suspects have now been arrested in Serbia, who are also accused of vandalizing
00:29Jewish sites in Paris, defacing several synagogues with green paint last May, as well as the
00:35Holocaust Memorial in the 4th arrondissement.
00:39Their goal was also to spread ideas that advocate and incite hatred, discrimination and violence
00:45based on differences in the personal characteristics of certain groups of people.
00:51The French Interior Ministry says the 11 suspects are all Serbian and were trained in Serbia
00:56by an additional suspect, known by the initials MG, who was acting on the instructions of
01:02a foreign intelligence service.
01:05It did not say which intelligence service it suspected, but France has accused Russia of
01:09trying to sow discord in the past.
01:12French police already arrested three Serbian nationals in connection with the defacing of
01:17the synagogues and the Holocaust Memorial in May, who are also said to have links to a foreign power.
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