Serbian authorities have arrested 11 people suspected of spreading racial hatred across Europe on behalf of a foreign intelligence service, according to officials.
The group was detained over incidents in France and Germany that occurred between April and September, including placing pig heads outside religious sites in Paris.
Serbian police stated that the suspects acted on instructions from an unidentified foreign security agency, whilst a suspected organiser remains at large.
The police statement did not specify which foreign agency was involved, but French authorities characterised the depositing of pig heads near Paris-area mosques earlier this month as an attempted foreign interference effort demonstrating a manifest desire to provoke trouble.
Whilst France did not name any country, the incident bore possible hallmarks of previous suspected Russian-linked acts of attempted destabilisation targeting France and other allies of Ukraine.
The Associated Press has mapped dozens of attacks and incidents across Europe attributed to Russia and its proxies, with France and Germany among the principal targets.
In France, the pig heads were discovered near nine Paris-area mosques, with five bearing the surname of French President Emmanuel Macron.
A farmer in Normandy alerted police after two people bought approximately 10 pig heads from him, identifying their car as having Serbian license plates.
Serbia's autocratic President Aleksandar Vucic maintains close relations with Russia, and the country remains the only European nation that has not imposed sanctions on Moscow over the war in Ukraine.
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