Overview
- Unknown attackers left a severed pig head on the mosque’s crescent early Friday during the local “Freinacht” prank night.
- Police say balloons filled with animal blood were thrown at the entrance of the DITIB community mosque.
- The Memmingen state-protection unit is leading the case, and Munich’s central extremism prosecutors have joined and appealed for witnesses.
- Prosecutors say the evidence points to an anti-Muslim motive under laws covering insult of a religious community and property damage.
- The DITIB community condemned the act and vowed not to be intimidated, in a year after Germany logged a sharp rise in anti-Muslim incidents.