I’m not sure why Carrefour is under fire, but French supermarket Auchan isn’t.

BEIJING - Hundreds of Chinese citizens protested on Saturday in the central city of Wuhan and in Beijing against France’s attitude towards Tibet and the Olympic Games, according to police and witnesses.

Many of the demonstrators congregated in front of Carrefour, the French supermarket accused by some Chinese of supporting Tibet.

“There were around 100 or 200 people outside the store holding up signs, asking people not to go inside to shop,” one person living on a street near one of the Carrefour shops said.

There were 300 demonstrators to start off with, a separate source said quoting the local police.

The news came as two small protests erupted in China’s capital Beijing around the French embassy and the French School, and also around four Beijing Carrefour stores.

Via Channel News Asia