"Death to France!"
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"Death to Macron!"
Throughout the week, anti-French slogans resonated across Afghanistan, after Emmanuel Macron's speech defending the freedom to publish caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in France.
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On Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, hundreds of men marched through Kabul, especially near the checkpoint controlling access to the French Embassy (entrenched in the "green zone", an ultra-secure perimeter that houses embassies and other foreign institutions ).
On Friday, they were around 600, trampling portraits of the French president and calling for the closure of the embassy, the expulsion of all French nationals as well as the end of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
The largest procession met on the same day in Herat, in the west of the country, where several thousand men entered the city center.
Emmanuel Macron's portrait was hung from the top of a crane before being set on fire.
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