National Rally’s Hervé Breuil, 68, hospitalised after being assaulted as he handed out flyers in central France before snap elections
National Rally’s Hervé Breuil, 68, hospitalised after being assaulted as he handed out flyers in central France before snap electionsMasked assailants have assaulted a far-right candidate on the campaign trail ahead of France’s snap parliamentary election, in the latest incident of violence targeting politicians across
Police said Hervé Breuil, a candidate for Marine Le Pen’s National Rally party, was assaulted as he handed out flyers on Thursday morning with four others in the industrial city of Saint Étienne, in central France.His assailants wore black and masked their faces, spokespersons for the police and local authority said. Breuil, 68, who wears a pacemaker, was hospitalised after the assault but was due to be discharged soon, they added.
In the first nine months of 2023, there were 2,387 physical and verbal attacks on politicians, compared with 2,265 for the whole of 2022, when incidents rose by a third compared with 2021, according to the country’s interior ministry. As news broke of Breuil’s assault, candidates from across the political spectrum condemned the attack on social media. Andrée Taurinya, a candidate for the leftwing Unbowed France who had been campaigning in the same area as BreuilOfficials said the attack on Breuil remained under investigation, but Le Pen was swift to link the incident to what she described as “far-left extremists”.
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