Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentPosters for “Borat 2” showing Sacha Baron Cohen nearly naked and wearing a ring engraved with the word Allah in Arabic have been removed from buses in the Parisian suburb of Essonne.The regional transportation group TICE took down the posters following a backlash that erupted over the weekend that saw some people, including bus drivers, condemn the posters as “provocative,” “insulting” and “disrespectful” toward the Muslim religion.The suburb of Essonne has been shaken up in recent weeks by the murder of Samuel Paty, a French middle-school teacher who was beheaded after showing cartoons to his students of the Prophet Muhammad from the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
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