The French presidential candidate
Marine Le Pen
has been rebuked by a group of protesters during her stay on the
island of Guadeloupe
.
Protesters have booed and surrounded the far-right French candidate in a hotel where she was recording a television program, the BFM TV channel has reported.
Protesters chanted
"Le Pen out" and "Racist Le Pen"
as they surrounded the candidate on Saturday as her escorts tried to get Le Pen out of the room through the hotel.
Marine Le Pen's spokesman, Julien Odoul, told
Franceinfo
that
"it is a campaign by militants of the extreme left
, local black groups, who destroy everything, wherever they are in the territory of the republic."
Odoul has thus made reference to the anti-fascist movement which was frequently accused of violent acts during the yellow vest protests in France.
"I find it shocking, like everyone else, and
I strongly condemn it
," President
Emmanuel Macron
said on the French television channel France 3, denouncing "all forms of violence, verbal and physical."
"I fight against Mrs. Le Pen's ideas, but with respect
," he added.
Both candidates are likely to come out on top in the first round of elections on April 10 and go through to the second round on April 24, with Macron the eventual winner.
The
far-right leader has focused on domestic issues such as inflation and the cost of living
during a campaign that has been overshadowed by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, while
Macron has hogged international issues by
taking part in a series of diplomatic meetings. including NATO, G7 and European summits last week.
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