Eric Zemmour was targeted by an egg that a man slammed on his head when he arrived in Moissac, in Tarn-et-Garonne, where the far-right candidate was campaigning for the presidential election on Saturday morning.
Barely out of his car, the candidate of Reconquest!
received the fresh egg from a middle-aged man, AFP found.
The author was immediately subdued by security and taken away by the gendarmes.
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“
We see which side is the violence, there are people who do not support the democratic debate
”, reacted the ex-polemicist after being welcomed at the town hall by the mayor RN Romain Lopez.
Eric Zemmour was accompanied by Marion Maréchal, Marine Le Pen's niece, who joined him last Sunday.
Romain Lopez is Marion Maréchal's former parliamentary attaché.
Moissac is "
a laboratory of what we are going to do at the national level
", congratulated Mr. Zemmour who was then to visit the cloister of Moissac with the mayor, before a meeting with the activists and an exchange in a service station with employees and motorists on the rise in gas prices.
In the afternoon, the far-right candidate was to hold a meeting at 3 p.m. in Agen.
