EDINBURGH, Scotland, Aug 21, (AP): A British comedian says he was attacked with a bottle at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival while dressed as Muammar Gaddafi.
Jeff Mirza was handing out flyers on the street for his show, dressed as the embattled Libyan leader, when a man approached and asked for a cigarette.
Mirza said he shook his head and the man walked on, but when Mirza turned around he was hit on the back of the head with a bottle. He was not seriously hurt.
Mirza is at the annual festival with his show “Jihad: Heresy or Hearsay.”
The comedian said Sunday that most festivalgoers had been welcoming. He said “most people at the Fringe get the joke of me being dressed up as a washed up dictator trying to sell the show.”