Three days after the beheading of a teacher who showed cartoons of the prophet Muhammad in progress, feminist activists were arrested Monday evening in France for pasting drawings of a naked posterior with the inscription: “And the ass of Muhammad, we have the right?”.
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Armed with buckets filled with glue and brushes, the three activists had the ambition to paste a thousand of these drawings, made by the late cartoonist Charb, “to flood the city center of Toulouse” (southwest) and exercise their ” right to blasphemy ”.
Charb was assassinated with several other cartoonists during the attack on the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo on January 7, 2015 in Paris.
Interested by passers-by curious about the finality of their approach, even aggressive for some, the activists did not respond much. “We have to go quickly, because it remains a risky action, we are not here to give a press conference,” the organizer of the action told AFP, who preferred to remain anonymous.
“A man was slaughtered in France for showing caricatures,” she finally launched to a very insistent onlooker.
Barely half an hour after the start of their action, the three women were arrested by the police and taken to the police station for “illegal posting”, especially on classified sites.
Beheaded on Friday near the college of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, north-west of Paris, where he taught history and geography, Samuel Paty was targeted, according to the French Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin, by a “fatwa” issued by a student’s parent and a preacher – both in police custody – for showing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad during a free speech class.