Three dangling bodies painted against a blood red background shocked passersby in central Paris Tuesday after a Yemeni artist unveiled a mural to denounce French arms' sales to the Saudi-led coalition fighting in his homeland.

France is among the world's leading arms exporters with its sales to Saudi Arabia last year rising 50 percent despite the government calling for an end to the conflict in Yemen.

At least 10,000 people have been killed in Yemen's civil war and millions displaced, according to the last available figures from the United Nations in 2016 .

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