Grozny (Russia) (AFP) – The backlash over Charlie Hebdo rumbled on Monday after days of bloodshed in Niger, with a huge rally in Chechnya against the magazine’s cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, Afghan protesters burning the French flag and Gazans levelling threats against France. Hundreds of thousands of people flooded into the centre of Grozny, the capital of Russia’s Muslim North Caucasus region of Chechnya, for a mammoth state-sponsored demonstration against caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed. An AFP journalist at the event put the attendance figure at several hundred thousand, while authorities in the tightly controlled region said more than …read more
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