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At least 50,000 take part in anti-France rally in Bangladesh

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At least 50,000 take part in anti-France rally in Bangladesh

PROTESTS. Activists and supporters of the Islami Andolon Bangladesh, a Islamist political party, hold a protest march calling for the boycott of French products and denouncing French president Emmanuel Macron for his comments over Prophet Mohammed caricatures, in Dhaka on October 27, 2020. Photo by Munir Uz Zaman/AFP

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Police estimate some 50,000 people took part in the protest, which demanded a boycott of French products, while organizers said there were more than 100,000

At least 50,000 people took part on Monday, November 2, in the biggest demonstration yet in Bangladesh over French President Emmanuel Macron’s defense of the right to publish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, police said.

A rally which started at Bangladesh’s biggest mosque was stopped from getting close to the French embassy where security has been stepped up.

Police estimated some 50,000 people took part in the protest, which demanded a boycott of French products, while organizers said there were more than 100,000.

Protesters chanted “No defamation of the Prophet Mohammed” and burned an effigy of the French leader.

Macron sparked protests across the Muslim world after the murder last month of teacher Samuel Paty – who had shown his class a cartoon of Mohammed – by saying France would never renounce its laws permitting blasphemous caricatures.

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The third major anti-France demonstration in Bangladesh in the past week was called by Hefazat-i-Islami, one of the biggest radical Muslim political groups in the country of 160 million people.

Many people came from towns outside Dhaka to take part in the rally.

Junaid Babunagaori, the firebrand deputy chief of Hezafat, called on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to move the Bangladesh parliament to condemn Macron.

“I call on traders to throw away French products. I ask the UN to take stern action against France,” he told the rally. – Rappler.com

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