Charlie Hebdo: Niger Sees Violent Protests Against French Magazine

Niger’s second largest city of Zinder, witnessed violent protest against French magazine Charlie Hebdo after the latest publication of a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad.

Police reportedly fired tear gas at hundreds of protesters who had  raided and set alight several buildings.

The violence comes more than a week after gunmen carried out a massacre at the French magazine’s offices in Paris.

Twelve people were killed in the attack, carried out by two French Muslims angry over earlier depictions of Muhammad in the magazine.

The cover of the magazine’s latest edition, published after the attack, featured a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad weeping while holding a sign saying “I am Charlie”.

Protests against the magazine were staged in many parts of the Muslim world after Friday prayers, including Pakistan, where protests turned violent in Karachi, the Sudanese capital of Khartoum and the Algerian capital, Algiers.

Source: BBC

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