Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets following Friday noon public prayers in each of the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott and the Algerian capital of Algiers, denouncing the re-publishing of prophet blaspheming in the French newspaper of Charlie Hebdo. Mauritanian media outlets said the demonstrators headed for the Presidential palace where President Mohammed Wild Abdulaziz addressed them. They tried to reach the French embassy but were blocked by security forces. In Algiers, they demonstrated peacefully after chanting against blasphemers of Prophet Mohammed (pbuh).
