French presidential election: Marine Le Pen heckled by demonstrators in Pointe-à-Pitre
Marine Le Pen's campaign bus, which is currently in Guadeloupe.
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At 14 days this Sunday from the 1st round of the presidential election, Marine Le Pen is in Guadeloupe.
The candidate of the National Rally, second behind Emmanuel Macron in the polls, is going back and forth to this island in the French West Indies for the first time during a presidential campaign.
The objective is to show himself to the French and also to complete the normalization of his candidacy when his father has never been able to set foot there.
But the move did not go as planned.
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With our special correspondent in Pointe-à-Pitre,
Julien Chavanne
It all started well though.
About fifty supporters were waiting for Marine Le Pen when he got off the plane.
But the postcard images fall apart a few hours later.
Thirty left-wing separatist activists took over his hotel.
The candidate is taken to task when she must be live on local television.
His bodyguards exfiltrate him.
The police will arrive later.
Ronald Selbonne is the spokesperson for the ANG, the Guadeloupe national alliance.
He was one of the demonstrators who had prevented Jean-Marie Le Pen from setting foot in Pointe-à-Pitre 35 years ago.
"
We interrupted his live because we find it unacceptable that far-right ideas are walking around quietly,
" he said.
It's as if they were at Club Med, on this land that was still a land of slavery.
»
Marine Le Pen's press adviser, hit in the back, filed a complaint.
The independence activists want to carry out other actions until his departure.
The RN candidate has decided to maintain her program and go to a market this Sunday.
Twelve candidates are in the running for the 2022 French presidential election. © FMM graphic studio
... © FMM Graphic Studio
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