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Man pelts Macron with egg during restaurant visit
A man pelted French President Emmanuel Macron with an egg while he was visiting a restaurant and hotel trade fair in the southeastern city of Lyon on Monday.
While visiting a Lyon's restaurant the egg hit Macron's shoulder but bounced off without breaking.
The assailant was quickly subdued and removed from the room, with Macron saying he would try to speak with him later.“If he has something to tell me, let him come,” Macron said at the International Catering, Hotel, and Food Trade Fair (SIRHA). “I’ll go see him afterward.”
It was a startling disturbance of the warm welcome by fair attendees for the centrist president, not least after he announced that restaurant tips paid by credit card would no longer be taxed.
When he was still a candidate for the presidency in 2017, an egg exploded against his head during a crowded visit at the national agriculture fair in Paris.
More recently, a man slapped him across the face while he was shaking hands with well-wishers in the southern city of Valence in June.