PARIS – French President Emmanuel Macron was hit with an egg during a visit to Lyon, the capital city in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, on Monday.
Macron was walking through a crown when the egg was thrown by a man, shouting “Viva la revolution” [Lon live revolution], shows a video circulating on social media.
The president was visiting the city to promote French gastronomy.
An egg was thrown at French president Emmanuel Macron today. pic.twitter.com/vDbRhEdSUm
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The incident comes more than three months after he was slapped across the face by a man during an official visit to the Drome region in south-eastern France in June this year.
A video of the incident showed a man shout “Down with Macronia” in the French language before slapping Macron’s face during a public walkabout in Tain-l’Hermitage outside the city of Valence.
President Macron later termed it an “isolated event”.
“We must not let ultra-violent people take over the public debate: they do not deserve it,” he told French newspaper Le Dauphiné.
Two days after the incident, a court in France had awarded four-month imprisonment to the man for slapping the president.
