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Four months before a gift-wrapped pig’s head was placed at the door of a Quebec City mosque, members of La Meute discussed online how they should do that very thing, down to attaching a gift card to the severed head.

The exchange, dating to Feb. 18, 2016, was found on La Meute’s secret Facebook page and has since been erased.

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It is not clear whether Quebec City police were aware of the discussion, however.

Spokesperson David Poitras said the police initially investigated the incident.

At 2:30 a.m. June 19, a pig’s head, wrapped in cellophane with blue and white bows, was discovered at the Centre Culturel Islamique du Québec mosque, with a card that read “Bonne (sic) Appétit.”

It was the same mosque where six people were shot and killed seven months later, in January 2017. Nineteen people were injured.

But Poitras said a prosecutor analyzed the evidence in the pig’s head case at the time and determined it was not a hate crime — only a hate incident — so no charges could be laid. He would not say whether the police were aware of the Facebook discussion.