Thursday’s protest comes after Romanian media rebroadcast several items in the French media, which have been considered insulting to Romania.

Last week, commentators on French radio Europe 1 suggested that Romanians learned French so that they could beg in France. During a recent Romania-France soccer match, there were jokes on Canal + about Romanians being beggars and thieves.

Protester Diana Olar said: “We don’t want to be labeled as a nation of robbers, rapists, criminals due to a few isolated cases.”