Anti Macron Protest: Posters of France Prez Macron with shoe print over his face pasted on Mumbai road

Mumbai: After the sensational and controversial statements made by France President Macron erupted a barrage of reactions leading to protests across Muslim community, posters of France President Emmanuel Macron – whose defence of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed and description of Islam as “a religion in crisis” have angered several Muslim-majority nations – were pasted on the surface of Mumbai’s Muhammad Ali Road on Thursday.

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Videos of vehicles driving over the posters and people walking over them have been shared online. Others show people marching to protest Mr Macron’s comments – with placards that read “Our Prophet Muhammad, Our Honour” – and one man hitting a poster of the French President with slippers.

The posters have triggered a political row in Maharashtra, with the opposition BJP hitting out at the ruling Shiv Sena for “supporting Islam terrorists” and demanding action against the protesters.

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“When France speaks out against Islamic terror then here (in Maharashtra) the government stands behind people supporting fanatic Islam terrorists?” BJP leader Kirit Somaiya told news agency ANI.

Although police swiftly removed the posters no case has been registered so far.

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Similar protests have been held in Madhya Pradesh’s Bhopal (a Congress MLA participated), at the Aligarh Muslim University in UP and in Punjab’s Ludhiana. In addition, the hashtag #BoycottFrenchProducts was trending online.

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