Angry Bangladeshis burn Macron effigy to protest cartoon
Protesters in Bangladesh burned an effigy of French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday, October 28, in capital Dhaka as anger seethes over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad and the leader's response to the caricatures considered blasphemous by Muslims.
Hundreds of people on Wednesday took part in a rally outside the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque as they held anti-France and anti-Macron banners and chanted.
The row has its roots in a knife attack outside a French school on Oct. 16 in which a man of Chechen origin beheaded Samuel Paty, a teacher who had shown pupils cartoons of Prophet Muhammad in a civics lesson.
The French government, backed by many citizens, saw the beheading as an attack on freedom of speech and said they would defend the right to display the cartoons, with Macron calling the teacher a hero. France's foreign ministry on Tuesday, October 27, issued safety advice to French citizens in Indonesia, Turkey, Bangladesh, Iraq and Mauritania, advising them to exercise caution as calls to boycott French products grow in Muslim-majority countries.
(Source: Reuters)
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