Emmanuel Macron Pelted By Eggs At Paris Agriculture Show

French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron, Wednesday, was pelted with eggs during a visit to the Paris Show of Agriculture, similarly to the same egg-throwing incident he experienced last year when he was minister of the economy.

A video showed scenes posted by bloggers and French media, of the presidential candidate, Macron being hit by an egg on his head hurled by persons around him during his visit there.

Unruffled Emmanuel Marcon later described what happened as a “folkloric incident.”

As a recall, French independent presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron described French colonization as a “crime against humanity” during a recent visit to Algeria, sparking outrage back home among some conservative and far-right parties including among the so-called “Pieds Noirs” or “Black Feet” who decided to sue him in court for “insults”.

Macron, a centrist, unequivocally condemned France’s 132-year long brutal colonial yoke in Algeria in an exclusive interview broadcast recently by Algerian Television “Echorouk News” on the sidelines of his visit to Algeria. 

“It’s a crime. It’s a crime against humanity,” Emmanuel Macron said. “It’s truly barbarous and it’s part of a past that we need to confront by apologizing to those against whom we committed these heinous acts.”

“At the same time, we must not sweep this somber colonial past under the rug…There’s a fitting phrase that is said about Algeria: ‘France established human rights in Algeria. It simply forgot to abide by them,’” Macron added.

For his part, under-fire French presidential candidate François Fillon decided to cancel at the last minute his planned visit to the Paris agriculture show fearing a hostile popular reception there. 

Francois Fillon has meanwhile declared that he won’t bow out of the presidential race, describing fraud accusations against him as what he described as a ‘political assassination’.

The former prime minister had been widely tipped to stand down, and told reporters that his lawyers had received a summons from judges on Wednesday morning.

He confirmed he would be charged with a series of corruption offences on March 15, five weeks before France goes to the polls to choose its next head of state. 

Fillon is accused of paying his wife hundreds of thousands of Euros in a fake job while pretending she was his ‘parliamentary assistant’.