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A sign bearing the words “Saguenay ville blanche” (Saguenay white city) was posted early Thursday at the Saguenay cemetery in St-Honoré.

On Monday, in an interview with Le Quotidien, a local newspaper, the Association islamique du Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean announced it would revive a two-year-old plan to establish a Muslim cemetery within the existing Catholic cemetery at Saint-Honoré.

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In the interview, association president Mustapha Elayoubi said the decision to revive the project followed a controversial referendum a day earlier in St-Apollinaire, southwest of Québec City, that saw a plan to establish a Muslim cemetery in that municipality defeated by a few votes.

Thursday’s incident is not the first time the logo “Saguenay ville blanche” has appeared in the area. Similar signs appeared in 2014, as did stickers bearing xenophobic messages.