A Muslim prayer room in eastern France was discovered vandalized on Wednesday with a pig’s head hanging from the door and both swastikas and anti-Islamic graffiti covering the walls, European Jewish Press reported quoting police sources. A pedestrian passing by the prayer center, part of a north African community center on the outskirts of the town of Toul, alerted authorities.
Two young men in their twenties were arrested shortly following the incident after they were caught spraying swastikas onto the wall of a Middle Eastern restaurant in a nearby town. Estimated at five million Muslims, France is home to Europe's largest Muslim community, and has seen a rise in Islamophobic attacks in the past two years.