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The French Embassy in Russia asked the Russian authorities to strengthen protection measures for all French missions in the country after the protests, during which, in particular, the portrait of French President Emmanuel Macron was burned.
The French Embassy in Moscow informed the Russian authorities about the terrorist threat, which increased after protests that took place outside the diplomatic mission on October 29-30. The Russian newspaper Kommersant wrote about it.
According to the embassy, the threats began to come in following French President Emmanuel Macron’s statement that the attack on passersby in Nice on October 29 was an Islamist terrorist attack.
The diplomatic mission expressed concern about the threats, asked the Russian authorities to condemn them and appealed “with a request to strengthen protection measures for all French representations in Russia. “
On October 29 and 30, protests against the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad were held in front of the French embassy in Moscow, Meduza writes. The first action was peaceful, during the second, the protesters burned a photo of Macron, the police broke up the protest.
The consulates general of France in the Russian Federation operate in Moscow, Yekaterinburg and Saint Petersburg.
These days similar promotions it took place in Turkey, Iraq, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Libya, Jordan, the Gaza Strip, and on the west bank of the Jordan River. In addition, representatives of Muslim communities in Israel and India came out to protest. Participants in such actions burn portraits of Macron and flags of France. They are outraged that in France they continue to publish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
October 29 in France there were a series of attacks on bystanders. In the morning in Nice, an unknown person attacked passersby with a knife, at least three people died, two of them died in the church. The attacker was arrested. It later emerged that in Avignon, a man armed with a pistol threatened passersby. In addition, a man was arrested in the center of Lyon, who tried to board a tram, armed with a knife with a 12-inch blade. It turned out to be from Afghanistan. In Saudi Arabia, on the same day, a guard from the French Consulate General was attacked.
The attacks came almost two weeks after the murder of Samuel Pati, a history professor at Conflans-Saint-Honorine College. The suspect died during the arrest. This is an 18 year old Moscow native of Chechen origin Abdullah Anzorov. Shortly before his death, the professor showed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in a lesson on freedom of expression. French law enforcement officers reported 11 detainees suspected of being involved in the murder of a history teacher.
After the attack on the master French President Emmanuel Macron announced “Islamist separatism “and expressed the opinion that” Islam is in crisis throughout the world. “At Paty’s farewell ceremony, the French leader said:” We will continue, teacher, we will defend the freedom that you taught so well, and we will extol the of a secular state, we will not renounce cartoons, drawings “.
Macron’s words were criticized by several leaders of Muslim countries, including Turkish President Recep Erdogan. Chechnya chief Ramzan Kadyrov called the French president “the mastermind of terrorism.”
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