Traffic didn’t move in central Kolkata for four hours on Thursday leaving citizens fuming as protestors marched to the American Center to protest a 14-minute trailer of a film depicting Prophet Mohammed in poor light.
Traffic came to a standstill in the city’s main arterial roads from 12 noon to 4.30 p.m. The cascading effect was felt as far as 20km radius of metro channel. The protestors were demanding a ban on the controversial film, Innocence of Muslims, made by a US filmmaker. They said that the film has insulted Prophet Mohammad and demanded an apology from the US officials in the American centre in Kolkata and a ban on the film.
A strong crowd of about 25,000 people marched into the heart of the city. Though the venue was the Y Road at Curzon Park, the crowd started spilling over in the all direction in the vicinity. As the crowd swelled, the gathering finally shifted to the Metro Channel around 12 noon. Around 3 pm, the crowd started marching towards the American Centre.
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