Rabat- Auchan stores, a French international retail group and multinational corporation headquartered in Croix, France, offered to sell, in the toy department, guns with a logo, displaying above the trigger, combining a star and a crescent moon, symbols associated with Islam.
The toy, which looks like a Kalashnikov AK-47 and is decorated with a star and a crescent moon, cost only one euro.
The photo of the toy went viral on social media and many social media users denounced the way Islam symbols are associated with guns and war machines.
Auchan commercialise un jouet-mitraillette avec des symboles de l’islam http://t.co/6y32Pc0g68 pic.twitter.com/qaimNRQ3FR
— Les Observateurs (@Observateurs) September 29, 2014
Contacted by the weekly l’Hebdomadaire, the company claims to have removed the toy from its stores.
Auchan "acknowledges having lacked vigilance" and said "sorry if some people were struck by association of the symbols and religion."