Top French Socialist attacked by far-right thugs
A top figure in France's Socialist party and his journalist partner were attacked by a crowd shouting anti-Jewish slogans and chanting support for the far-right National Front, they said Wednesday.
Arnaud Montebourg and Audrey Pulvar, a prominent broadcaster, said a group of about 15 men surrounded them as they left a restaurant late Monday and shouted "Le Pen for president", referring to far-right leader Marine Le Pen.
They also shouted "France for the French" and "Juden, Juden, Juden" (which means Jews in German) before throwing glasses at the couple as they left the restaurant in Paris' chic 16th district, Pulvar said in Twitter messages.
The incident came just days after Pulvar gave Le Pen a grilling in a weekend television show about her alleged association with European far-right parties and neo-Nazi groups.
http://www.expatica.com/fr/news/french-news/top-french-socialist-attacked-by-far-right-thugs_211500.html
The far-right shouting anti-Semitic and nationalistic slogans is not exactly new. Indeed it is eerily familiar. These day, though, it is often replaced with anti-Muslim slogans from the right these days.
At least for public consumption Marine Le Pen has been trying to distance the National Front (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Front_(France)) from this type of right wing skinhead tactic (and worse).
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