Hefazat-i-Islam, the Muslim political organisation that carried out the protest, demanded the Bangladesh government to severe all diplomatic ties with France and shut down French embassy.
A Bangladeshi Twitter user has claimed that the police has taken no action against the arsonists and the vandals but instead jailed two Hindus over comments on Facebook.
The ravaged city was home to a minority of Christians belonging to the Greek Orthodox Church, the Assyrian Church of the East, Syriac Orthodox Church, Chaldean Catholic and Syriac Catholic Church, and various Protestants.
A suspect was apprehended near a kebab shop in Lyon and put under police custody. However, it was not clear whether the nabbed suspect was the 'real assailant'.