Here’s video from the riots we reported on yesterday. ‘Normal’ folk, not al Qaeda, not ISIS, who believe their religion and their offense gives them the right to burn you out.
Niamey (AFP) – Five people were killed and churches set on fire in Niger in fresh protests against the French weekly Charlie Hebdo’s cartoon of Mohammed, as France condemned the violence and asserted its commitment to freedom of expression.
But anger mounted in several Muslim countries over the satirical newspaper’s caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed, with a second day of rioting erupting in Niger, a predominantly Muslim former French colony.
Around 1,000 youths wielding iron bars, clubs and axes rampaged through the Niger capital, hurling rocks at police who responded with tear gas.
At least eight churches were torched and the French embassy in Niamey urged its citizens to stay at home.
“In Niamey, the tally is five dead, all civilians,” Niger’s President Mahamadou Issoufou said in a speech broadcast on state television, as he appealed for calm.