Scenes of
chaos broke out across the Muslim world today as hundreds of thousands
of protesters burned flags and effigies in anger over the French
satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
Protesters
gathered in the main market square in Bannu, Pakistan, chanting 'Death
to the government of France', before setting fire to dozens of French
flags and an effigy of the former French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
As
the anger mounted, some demonstrators even set fire to an inverted
Italian flag, which they mistakenly thought belonged to France.
A
second effigy destroyed in the protest was said to represent the editor
of the Charlie Hebdo, the magazine which was subject to a brutal attack
earlier this month, after two masked jihadist gunmen stormed the Paris
headquarters and killed 12 people.
The
dramatic scenes came as more than 2,000 Iranians protested outside the
French embassy in Tehran, shouting 'Death to French' and urging the
ambassador to be expelled.
Hundreds
of thousands of people also gathered in the Russian region of
Chechnya, amid growing anger over the publication's depiction of the
Prophet Mohammed.
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