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?"
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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.