After a similar incident and President Macron's advocacy of the freedom to print caricatures of Prophet Muhammad, three people were stabbed to death in a church in Nice, France, in 2020.
French President Emmanuel Macron has stated that he understands why Muslims were outraged by cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad. It comes after a deadly knife assault on a church in Nice, the country's third alleged Islamist incident in less than a month. A dispute has erupted with certain Muslim nations over the subject of the drawings. Some have called for a boycott of French products, despite Mr. Macron's defense of the right to use the pictures in the framework of free expression.
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