On the events in Niger and the impending protest in Grozny against the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed
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Continuing mass protests in Niger. Local residents are protesting the publication in Charlie Hebdo of the cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed and their mass distribution in other European and world media. Initially, protesters against the publication of caricatures took to the square next to the mosque of the city of Niamey. The protest escalated into clashes with local law enforcement officers. As a result of these clashes, at least five people died. The agency reports France-Presse.
Another five citizens of Niger died in the town of Zinder, where mass protests are also taking place. At this moment, Niger’s medical facilities have already taken more than 50 wounded.
The cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, published in the weekly Charlie Hebdo, the circulation of which increased hundreds of times this week, resulted in five Christian churches and a French cultural center being burned down in the same Niger. Participants in the riots identify those who printed cartoons of the prophet as representatives of the Christian world, and therefore Christian churches feel all the emotions of the Muslims of Niger. Although an equal sign between "Charly Ebdo" and the Christian world can only be one who is too poorly informed about the activities of this publication. Such bloody protests related to the activities of the French magazine can be swept across other countries of the world.
A spokesman for the head of the Chechen Republic, Alvi Karimov, announced a peaceful protest against the cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in Grozny on Friday on the Special Correspondent program on Russia-1 TV channel on Friday. According to Karimov, up to half a million people can take to the streets of the administrative center of Chechnya. Karimov noted that the people of Chechnya took the news of the terrorist act against journalists in Paris with pain in their hearts, but most Chechens consider the Charlie Hebdo outburst of Muslims, which provoked a surge of terrorist attacks in France.
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