Unrest linked to the anti-France movement continues in Pakistan. They are orchestrated by a radical Islamist party, the TLP (Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan), however banned.
This Sunday, the militants of this party took hostage at least seven Pakistani police officers.
In a tweet, Firdous Ashiq Awan, spokesperson for the government of Punjab province, said up to twelve police officers may have been kidnapped and taken to the TLP mosque in Lahore, where hundreds of anti-protesters are gathered. France.
They would have invaded the police station, armed with Molotov cocktails and bottles of acid, according to her. TLP leaders said several of their supporters died in the attack.
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They have been protesting since Monday against the imprisonment of their leader, who was arrested for asking for the expulsion of the French ambassador.
Anti-France protests took place in several cities across the country, leading to the deaths of six police officers and leading the French embassy to call on its nationals to temporarily leave the country.
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Campaign against Macron, who defended Charlie Hebdo
“We will not bury them until the French ambassador is deported,” Allama Muhammad Shafiq Amini, a TLP leader in Lahore, said in a video posted online.
The TLP has embarked on an anti-French campaign since President Emmanuel Macron defended Charlie Hebdo’s right to publish the Muhammad cartoons, an act they deem blasphemous.
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