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Anti-Macron protest in Bangladesh: demonstrations and calls for a boycott against France
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In France, hackers attacked dozens of websites and published Islamist propaganda on them.
Messages such as "Victory for Mohammed, Victory for Islam and Death for France" were displayed on the websites of pensioners' associations, businesses and smaller towns on Monday.
In addition, a montage of pictures was posted by French President Emmanuel Macron, showing him as a pig.
The French contact point for victims of cyberattacks had already published a notice on Twitter on Sunday that a “wave of cyberattacks” was targeting “many French websites”.
"Several dozen websites, maybe 100, are affected," said French IT security expert Gérôme Billois.
He spoke of a "clear political message" and recalled a wave of similar attacks that hit more than 1,000 French websites after the Islamist attacks in January 2015.
The background to this is probably the dispute over Macron's reaction to the allegedly Islamist-motivated murder of the history teacher Samuel Paty near Paris.
Paty had shown caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed in class.
Macron had announced stricter controls on mosques and other Muslim institutions.
Macron's remarks, including not to do without caricatures in the future, caused some outrage in the Arab world.
In several Muslim countries there were protests and calls for boycotts against France at the weekend, which continued at the beginning of the week.
The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Macron of Islamophobia and advised the President to have his "state of mind examined".
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