The debate on cartoons (also) agitates the Netherlands

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A view of Rotterdam and its New Meuse river in the Netherlands.

(Photo illustration) AFP

By: Antoine Mouteau

4 min

In the Netherlands, an 18-year-old woman was arrested for inciting violence on social networks, against a professor at a college in Rotterdam.

Faced with threats, the latter now lives in hiding.

Students criticized him for the presence in his class of a caricature which, according to them, insulted Islam.

  • Netherlands

  • Freedom of press

  • Education

  • Charlie hebdo

  • Islam

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