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| France’s Interior Minister flees from hecklers |
| 2004-02-01 |
| A visit to a Paris subway turned nasty for France’s tough Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy when youths besieged his entourage, heckling and hissing at him, French newspapers reported yesterday. According to France’s Le Journal du Dimanche newspaper, Sarkozy - who has run a successful anti-crime campaign - turned up at the sprawling Les Halles station to discuss public transport security measures with regional police. The atmosphere turned tense when some youths started hissing and hurling insults as his bodyguards rallied around. The minister and his team then tried to sneak out of a side door in the subway but some 30 youths spotted them and gave chase. The officials had to sprint to their cars. "We will come back to Les Halles to talk about public transport security. But this time we will avoid Saturday afternoons, a day of big crowds," Le Parisien Dimanche quoted Senator Roger Karoutchi, who was among the officials, as saying. |
| Posted by:TS |
| #2 Pussy. |
| Posted by: whitecollar redneck 2004-2-1 11:25:39 PM |
| #1 Hmmm. I wonder if they were algerian 'yoods'. |
| Posted by: 4thInfVet 2004-2-1 11:24:05 PM |