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Toulouse: activists arrested after pasting cartoons of Charb

2020-10-19T20:46:19.418Z


Feminist activists were arrested Monday evening by the police during an action of pasting in the streets of Toulouse of a caricature by Charb representing a naked posterior next to the inscription: "And the ass of Mahomet, we have the right?" Read also: Assassination of Samuel Paty: the executive wants to better supervise the platforms Armed with seals filled with glue and brushes, the three act


Feminist activists were arrested Monday evening by the police during an action of pasting in the streets of Toulouse of a caricature by Charb representing a naked posterior next to the inscription:

"And the ass of Mahomet, we have the right?"

Read also: Assassination of Samuel Paty: the executive wants to better supervise the platforms

Armed with seals filled with glue and brushes, the three activists had the ambition to stick a thousand posters

"to flood the city center of Toulouse"

, and exercise their

"right to blasphemy"

, three days after the beheading near Paris of a teacher who had shown caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad during a course on freedom of expression.

Interested by passers-by curious about the purpose of their approach, or even aggressive, the activists do not respond or very little.

"We have to go quickly because it remains a risky action, we are not there to give a press conference,"

told AFP the organizer of the action who prefers to remain anonymous.

"A man was slaughtered in France for showing caricatures,"

she finally says to a very insistent onlooker.

Barely half an hour after the start of their action, they were arrested by the police and taken to the police station for

"illegal posting"

, especially on classified sites.

Charb had been assassinated along with several other iconic Charlie Hebdo cartoonists during the attack on the satirical weekly on January 7, 2015.

Source: lefigaro

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