Sunday, September 23, 2012

Police helicopter, riot squad, 30 journalists meet lone Islam protestor

""A police helicopter and 60 riot police deployed Saturday in central Marseille to prevent any protests about anti-Islam cartoons, but only a single demonstrator turned out. Around 30 journalists were also on hand to witness the man's attempt to defy an official ban on protests about a French magazine that published cartoons mocking the Prophet Mohammed. "I may be the only one today but I am the spokesman of a silent majority," Omar Djellil, whose request to hold a legal demo was turned down by police, told reporters as he harangued passers-by from atop a concrete block."" (thanks David)