The Singaporean authorities announced Tuesday, November 24 that they had expelled 15 Bangladeshis who had sent messages on social networks inciting violence against France after a series of jihadist attacks.
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The Singaporean intelligence services had stepped up their surveillance since the beginning of September after the republication in France of caricatures of the prophet of Islam, and the Bangladeshis were deported following these investigations, said the Ministry of the Interior.
Bangladeshi migrant workers, most of them construction workers, posted messages "
which incited violence or encouraged community unrest
" in response to the attacks in France, the ministry said in a statement.
The Singaporean authorities have not detailed the content of the messages published.
France has suffered three jihadist attacks in recent months: a stabbing attack at the end of September which left two wounded near the former premises of the weekly Charlie Hebdo, the beheading on October 16 of the history and geography professor Samuel Paty who had worked with his students on the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad published by Charlie Hebdo, and a knife attack that killed three people at the end of October in a basilica in Nice.
Several Muslim countries have seen a wave of protests against Emmanuel Macron's statements defending the right to cartoon in the name of freedom of expression.
In Bangladesh, tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets.
Singapore has a predominantly Chinese population, but also a significant Muslim minority.
The Southeast Asian city-state employs more than 30,000 migrants, many of them from South Asia, especially in construction.
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