Dhaka, Oct 27 (AFP/APP):Tens of thousands of protesters marched through the Bangladesh capital on Tuesday calling for a boycott of French products and burning an effigy of President Emmanuel Macron after he defended cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed. Police estimated more than 40,000 people took part in the march organised by an Islamist party that was halted before it could get close to the French embassy in Dhaka. Protesters chanting “Boycott French products” and calling for Macron to be punished choked the streets. Hundreds of police deployed a barbed wire barricade across a road about five kilometres (three miles) from the embassy to stop them advancing. Before breaking up, one group doused an effigy with a Macron face in kerosene and set it ablaze, shouting anti-French slogans. The French president has been the target of protests in several countries over his comments, made after a teacher in a Paris suburb was decapitated for showing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed to his pupils. Any depiction of Mohammed is forbidden in Islam. The rally was organised by Islami Andolan Bangladesh, one of the largest Islamist parties in the Muslim majority country of 168 million people. The party has called for more nationwide … Continue reading Tens of thousands stage anti-France rally in Bangladesh