Shoppers stood on pictures of Emmanuel Macron's face and used them as a social distancing guide in a Libyan clothing store today, amid anger at the French president for defending Prophet Mohammed cartoons and cracking down on radical Islam. The identical Macron posters - defaced with footprints - were laid out at appropriate intervals in a clothing store near Tripoli. The Libyan capital has also seen protests where Macron portraits have been stamped on and set on fire amid demonstrations across the Muslim world. Libya's foreign ministry on Tuesday condemned Macron's 'reckless insults' towards Islam after the French president defended the right to blaspheme. A foreign ministry spokesman demanded that Macron apologise to the world's 1.5billion Muslims, according to Libyan media.

Source: Libya Today October 28, 2020 15:43 UTC