Beirut Police Block Quarter Adjacent to French Embassy Ahead of Mass Rally
BEIRUT (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 30th October, 2020) The Lebanese road police forces have sealed off all roads leading to the French embassy in Beirut ahead of a planned protest that was not authorized by the local authorities, a Sputnik correspondent reported from the scene.
Additional security reinforcements were taken to the diplomatic mission, according to the correspondent.
The measures were taken due to activist intentions to hold a mass rally near the French embassy, a road police officer said.
Security has been maintained in cooperation with the army.
Demonstrators are moving toward the embassy in a bid to express their protest against the stand of French President Emmanuel Macron over caricatures of Islamic prophet Mohammad that were published by French magazine Charlie Hebdo.