Confusion and scuffles in front of the Union House on the sidelines of the meeting of the candidate RN Eleonore Revel. - J. Urbach / 20Minutes

The candidate of the National Rally for the mayor of Nantes, Eleonore Revel, held this Tuesday evening (19:30) a campaign meeting with the European deputy Nicolas Bay. The place chosen for the public meeting, the hall of the State Station, in the immediate vicinity of the departmental headquarters of many unions aroused the anger of the CGT, the FSU and Solidaires.

Dear Nantes ladies and gentlemen, dear activists,
I am expecting many of you this evening for my campaign meeting in the presence of @NicolasBay_ MEP.
Come and discover our #LeBonSensPourNantes program and meet my running mate. # ER2020 #Nantes pic.twitter.com/GpyWzj2L7A

- Eléonore Revel 2020 (@ 2020Revel) March 3, 2020

About fifty activists gathered on site, from 7 p.m., to protest "against the presence of the extreme right in Nantes" a fortiori in this "symbolic place of equal rights". The RN had mobilized its security service to facilitate the arrival of the few rare sympathizers seen.

Except that the face-to-face, tense, ended up degenerating. Fairly violent blows were exchanged on the forecourt. People have been jostled. The building's electricity was cut off, which adds to the confusion. The police, for the time being, have not intervened.

Electric atmosphere in front of the house of the unions which is to host this evening a meeting of @eleonorerevel the candidate of the National Rally and @NicolasBay_ #Nantes pic.twitter.com/802pyo6u0Q

- 20 Minutes Nantes (@ 20minutesnantes) March 3, 2020

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