In the second day of protests in Niger, stone-throwing demonstrators set fire to two churches and burned at least two police cars outside the main mosque in the capital Niamey on Saturday, after authorities banned a march organised by local Muslim leaders.
"They offended our Prophet Muhammad. That's what we didn't like," protester Amadou Abdoul Ouahab told the Reuters news agency.
"This is the reason why we have asked Muslims to come, so that we can explain this to them, but the state refused. That's why we're angry today."
The French embassy said on its website: "Be very cautious, avoid going out."
More churches burned
Demonstrations were also reported in regional towns, including Maradi, 600km east of Niamey, where two churches were burned. Another church and a residence of the foreign minister were burned in the eastern town of Goure.
No casualties were reported in any of the demonstrations.
Four Muslim preachers who had convened the meeting in Niamey were arrested, police sources told Reuters.
On Friday, at least one police officer and three civilians were killed in demonstrations against Charlie Hebdo's cartoons in Niger's second city of Zinder.
Peaceful marches took place after Friday prayers in the capital cities of other West African countries - Mali, Senegal and Mauritania - and Algeria in North Africa, which are all also former French colonies.
Thousands of Muslims demonstrated across the world on Friday, venting fury over the new Prophet Muhammad cartoon that Charlie Hebdo published in the wake of attacks on its offices and elsewhere in Paris last week.
Many Muslims see any depiction of Islam's prophet as offensive, while many Western governments support Charlie Hebdo's position that publishing the cartoons is an exercise in freedom of expression.
aljazeera.com
17/1/15
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ReplyDeleteAbdelkebir Kotbi’s comments came after 17 people were killed in two Paris attacks in recent days.
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ReplyDeleteΕπτά εκκλησίες πυρπολήθηκαν σήμερα Σάββατο στη Νιαμέι και η πρεσβεία της Γαλλίας στην πρωτεύουσα του Νίγηρα κάλεσε τους γάλλους πολίτες να "αποφεύγουν οποιαδήποτε έξοδο", καθώς οι ταραχές για τη γελοιογραφία του Μωάμεθ που δημοσιεύθηκε από την εβδομαδιαία γαλλική σατιρική εφημερίδα "Charlie Hebdo" επεκτείνονται σε πολλές συνοικίες της πρωτεύουσας, μεταξύ των οποίων αυτή του καθεδρικού ναού, έπειτα από μια πρώτη βίαιη διαδήλωση που πραγματοποιήθηκε το πρωί.
"Πρέπει να επιδεικνύεται μεγάλη σύνεση, να αποφεύγεται οποιαδήποτε έξοδος", γράφει η πρεσβεία στον ιστότοπό της. Πολλά πρακτορεία της γαλλικής επιχείρησης στοιχημάτων Pari mutuel urbain (PMU) και καταστήματα της γαλλικής τηλεφωνικής εταιρείας Orange υπέστησαν ζημιές σήμερα στην πόλη, διαπίστωσε δημοσιογράφος του Γαλλικού Πρακτορείου..........................http://www.kathimerini.com.cy/index.php?pageaction=kat&modid=1&artid=195192
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