France election: Poll favourite (Socialist Francois) Hollande flour-bombed

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A woman has hurled flour at the Socialist candidate in the French presidential election, Francois Hollande, at a campaign stop in Paris.

Bodyguards leapt forward to protect the candidate and the assailant was restrained, then carried from the stage by her hands and feet.

Mr Hollande, covered in white, stayed calm during the incident.

It has also emerged that a bullet and threatening letters were sent to French Green presidential candidate Eva Joly.



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16839556

Sounds like the threats and stunts are against the Socialist and Green Party candidates. The right wingers are up to their old tricks in France.