An unknown person or group planted a dead pig’s head, feet and bowels on land in Erfurt, Germany, where Muslims plan to build a mosque, local police said Monday.
The parts of the dead animal were left atop nine wooden spikes, each approximately five feet tall, at the site of the future Ahmadiyya mosque.
The move was likely intended to intimidate Muslims, who consider pigs and anything that touches the animals to be unclean.
“While such acts do not make us lose our composure … we find it very sad that people go down to such a level,” Mohammed Suleman Malik, a spokesman for the Erfurt community, told the Associated Press.
In a previous protest of the coming Erfurt facility, a group of people put up large crosses — a symbol of the Christian religion — in an adjacent lot.
