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Denmark in solidarity with France in the cartoon crisis

2020-10-28T17:21:04.606Z


Denmark, where the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in 2005 had been the origin of a planetary crisis today rekindled by the murder of a French teacher who showed the drawings, said Wednesday October 28 in solidarity with France, the target of violent criticism, particularly from Turkey. " Denmark stands in solidarity with France, " Danish foreign minister Jeppe Kofod said on TV2 te


Denmark, where the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in 2005 had been the origin of a planetary crisis today rekindled by the murder of a French teacher who showed the drawings, said Wednesday October 28 in solidarity with France, the target of violent criticism, particularly from Turkey.

"

Denmark stands in solidarity with France,

" Danish foreign minister Jeppe Kofod said on TV2 television.

Freedom of expression is a fundamental value in a democracy,

” he said.

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The minister deemed "

criticizable

" the behavior of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who accuses Emmanuel Macron of "

Islamophobia

" for having defended the right to caricature the Prophet Muhammad during a tribute to a French teacher beheaded for showing drawings in class .

The Turkish head of state has also questioned the “

mental health

” of his French counterpart.

In the Muslim world, the French position has sparked numerous demonstrations of tens of thousands of people and calls for a boycott.

In France, the weekly

Charlie Hebdo on

Wednesday caricatured the Turkish president, who then threatened to take diplomatic measures against Paris and rejected “

attempts at destabilization

”.

Read also: Cartoon dialogue between Erdogan and Charlie Hebdo

This satirical newspaper published the cartoons in 2006 like other European newspapers in defense of press freedom, after their publication by a Danish daily angered many Muslims around the world.

Charlie Hebdo

was subsequently the target in 2015 of a jihadist attack that killed 12 people, including journalists and cartoonists from the newspaper.

Islam, in its strict interpretation, prohibits any representation of the Prophet Muhammad.

Source: lefigaro

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