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French President Emmanuel Macron Depicted as 'Parisian Devil' in Iranian Cartoon - Photo

French President Emmanuel Macron has been at the receiving end of a barrage of abuse since his speech at a commemoration ceremony for brutally murdered French history teacher Samuel Paty last week, in which he stressed that France would continue to defend freedom of speech.
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Iran's Watane Emrooz (Homeland Today), an ultra-conservative Persian language newspaper, has published a caricature of French President Emmanuel Macron after his statement about the cartoons of Prophet Muhammad.

The French President is depicted as a person with a red face and pointed ears, with a signature reading the "Parisian Iblis (devil)".

​All France was shocked this month when the teacher Samuel Paty was beheaded on the outskirts of Paris by an 18-year-old of Chechen descent after Paty showed a bunch of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad to his pupils during a history lesson.

After the murder, Macron unveiled the so-called "enlightened Islam" initiative — legislation that will ensure the pre-eminence of republican values and establish control over funding which French mosques can receive from abroad.

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