French weekly publishes Mohammed cartoons PARIS, September 19 - French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed on Wednesday, a move that was move criticised by the French authorities, which sent riot police to protect the magazine's offices. The magazine hit newsstands with a front cover showing an orthodox Jew pushing a turbaned figure in a wheelchair with several caricatures of the prophet on its inside pages, including some of him naked. The front page cartoon had the wheelchair-bound figure saying "You mustn't mock"under the headline "Untouchable 2," a reference to a hugely popular French movie about a paralysed rich white man and his black assistant. The publication came amid widespread outrage over a short film, made with private funds in the US, that mocks the Prophet Mohammed and has ignited days of sometimes deadly protests in the Arab world, Africa, Asia and some western countries. Laurent Fabius, the French foreign minister, criticised the move as a provocation and said he had ordered security beefed up at French diplomatic offices in the Muslim world. Charlie Hebdo's Paris offices were fire bombed last November after it published a mocking caricature of Mohammad. In 2005, Danish cartoons of the prophet sparked a wave of violent protests across the Muslim world in which at least 50 people were killed. Many Muslims consider any representation of Allah or the Prophet Mohammed offensive. Is it relevant and intelligent in this environment to add fuel to the fire? The answer is no," Mr Fabius told France Info radio. I'm very worried . . . and when I saw this I immediately issued instructions for special security precautions to be taken in all the countries where it could be a problem. The government has called for restraint over the cartoons, restating the principles of free speech in France and urging those shocked by the images to take action through the courts. Muslim leaders in France, which has Europe's largest Muslim population, have appealed for calm. As outrage over the anti-Muslim film continues to fuel violence and protests across the Islamic world, Jean-Marc Ayrault, French prime minister, said the authorities had rejected a request to hold a march against the film in Paris. "There is no reason for us to allow conflicts that do not concern France to enter our country," Ayrault told RTL radio. Social media had circulated calls for a protest on Saturday against the film, after police arrested about 150 people who tried to take part in an unauthorised protest near the US embassy in Paris last week.