"Foreign nationals who immediately left the country" were behind pigs' heads left outside mosques in the Paris region, the city's prosecutor's office told AFP on Wednesday, citing a "clear desire to cause unrest" in France.
French police launched an investigation on Tuesday after nine pig heads were found outside several mosques in the Paris region, the city's police chief said, saying further findings were possible.
French lawmakers on Tuesday observed a minute's silence to honour Aboubakar Cisse, a young Malian man who was stabbed to death in a mosque, while a cousin of the victim said the family did not feel safe in the country.
The pan European rights body the Council of Europe has pulled a campaign promoting diversity among women and their freedom to wear the Muslim headscarf after it sparked an outcry in fiercely secular France.
Islamophobia has increased in both Paris and London in recent years but anti-Islam behaviour shows itself very differently in the two capital cities, as this article from The Conversation explains.
Conservative Muslims should do more to integrate into mainstream French society says the Frenchman who was controversially chosen to head France's new Foundation for Islam.
A restaurant owner in a Paris suburb is facing an investigation after chasing two veiled Muslim women out of his premises on Saturday in the latest incident of intercultural tensions in France.
While the government and religious leaders are preaching unity between communities the country is still witnessing several acts of Islamophobia with mosques targeted.
France has seen a massive drop in the number of anti-Islam acts, according to the National Observatory against Islamophobia, although Muslim leaders sounded a note of caution.
The shop front of a Muslim butchers on the French island of Corsica was sprayed by machine gun fire on Tuesday night, as communal tensions on the island remained high.
Hate crimes against Muslims in France tripled last year, anti-Semitic assaults remained at an already "high level" and
attacks on Christian sites rose by a fifth, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve says.
Nicolas Sarkozy's right-wing opposition party held an internal meeting on Thursday on the "question of Islam" in France, boycotted by Muslim groups who warned of "stigmatising" the religion.
France saw a sixfold rise in anti-Muslim acts in the first quarter of the year, fuelled by the Paris jihadist attacks, the National Observatory against Islamophobia said on Thursday.
Muslims at over 2,000 mosques in France will gather at 1:30pm on Friday to pray for France and its future. Meanwhile, there have been more anti-Muslim incidents recorded in the last two weeks in France than in the whole of 2014.
A leading French organization which combats anti-Muslim behaviour and speech launched a new smartphone and tablet app on Monday, allowing users to report incidents of Islamophobia by sending photos and videos to the group.
A pregnant Muslim woman who was allegedly attacked in the suburbs of Paris by two ‘skinheads’ for wearing an Islamic face veil has suffered a miscarriage, it was reported on Tuesday.
Racist, anti-Semitic and Islamophobic acts and threats have risen steeply in France, according to a report published on Thursday by the country’s racism watchdog. Levels of intolerance in the country were a real "concern", the watchdog concluded.
