Protest in front of French Embassy in Dhaka

Leaders and activists from various Islamist political parties began gathering in front of the French Embassy in Dhaka on Tuesday to protest against French President Emmanuel Macron, who denounced the Islamists and vowed not to "give up cartoons" depicting the Prophet Mohammed.

Confirming the matter, Abul Hassan, officer-in-charge of the Gulshan Police Station, said to media, "Many people gathered in the Embassy Area and the police improved security measures in the Gulshan area."

In recent days, the call to boycott French goods has risen in the Arab world and beyond, after French President Emmanuel Macron attacked the Islamists and made a statement not to give up cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed.

Macron's statement came in reaction to the decapitation of the teacher, Samuel Paty, outside his school in a suburb outside Paris earlier this month, after he had shown the cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in a class he was in free speech.

The teacher became the target of an online hate campaign over his choice of teaching material — the same images that caused a bloody attack by Islamist gunmen on the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, the original publisher, in January 2015.