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French PM says ‘no place for violence and intimidation’ after candidate attacked putting up election posters – Europe live

French PM says ‘no place for violence and intimidation’ after candidate attacked putting up election posters – Europe live

Gabriel Attal said candidate Prisca Thevenot and members of her campaign team were attacked by four individuals

The Ecologists’ Marine Tondelier has criticised the far right National Rally’s Jordan Bardella, arguing that his party is allowing some candidates who made racist, anti-Semitic and misogynistic comments to remain on the ballot.

The French prosecutor’s office said it opened an investigation into an assault with a weapon against a public official, after government spokesperson and candidate Prisca Thevenot and her team were attacked yesterday, the Associated Press reported.

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