French Flags, Hollande Pictures Burned at Charlie Hebdo Protests Worldwide
SputnikNews.com
18.01.2015
Thousands protest across the Muslim world against Charlie Hebdo after the satirical magazine printed new cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed this week. French flags and pictures of French president are burned, French-run businesses, churches and French cultural centers have also been targeted.
MOSCOW, January 18 (Sputnik) – Thousands of people across the Muslim world protested against the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and its printing of the Prophet Mohammed cartoons on this weekend, Agence France-Presse reports.
In Pakistan, representatives from both religious and secular political parties gathered in all major cities, including Karachi, Islamabad, Peshawar, Lahore, chanting slogans against Charlie Hebdo and French President Francois Hollande.
The largest march was in Lahore, where more than 6,000 people attended a rally, meanwhile, in Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city, over 2,000 people marched on the streets, urging Pakistan to sever relations with France. In Quetta, a city in northern Balochistan near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, a group of protesters burned the French flag and pictures of the French president, AFP reports.
“We are not Charlie, we are Kouachi,” screamed the protesters in reference to the two brothers, who killed 12 people at the office of Charlie Hebdo on January 7.
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