BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia this week arrested 11 people suspected of spreading racial hatred in European countries on the instructions from a foreign intelligence service, including placing pig heads outside Muslim religious sites in Paris, officials said.
Serbian police said in a statement Monday that the group was detained over incidents in France and Germany that took place between April and September. A suspected organizer, who Serbian police said acted on instructions from an unidentified foreign security agency, remains at large.
The police statement did not specify the foreign agency. French authorities characterized the depositing of pig heads near Paris-area mosques earlier this month as an attempted foreign interference effort, demonstrating “a manifest desire to provoke tr