Éric Zemmour was targeted with insults and egg throwing while walking through a market in Ajaccio on Saturday, according to an AFP correspondent and a police source.
On the market, the former presidential candidate was awaited by around fifteen people who called him “fascho” and shouted “Leave here!” », According to an AFP correspondent photographer.
“There were jets of water and throwing of eggs and a woman tried to push him,” said a police source, adding that “the incident was very brief.”
“This is the true face of the far left, of small violent groups, who truly want us dead,” reacted immediately the leader of the far-right party on his X account (ex-Twitter). He was campaigning in Ajaccio for the European elections.
Eric Zemmour, convicted several times for provoking racial hatred, continued his stroll, always followed by the same fifteen people kept at a distance by a CRS cordon. Sometimes warmly welcomed on certain stalls, he was encouraged to look elsewhere on others.
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