Government spokesperson Prisca Thevenot, who is a candidate for the centrist Ensemble alliance led by President Emmanuel Macron, said she and a deputy and a party activist were putting up election posters in Meudon near Paris on Wednesday night when a group attacked them.
Candidates in French legislative elections make final push in torrid campaign ahead of vote
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A candidate who campaigned in the outskirts of Paris for Macron’s camp was assigned private security guards by her party after she said she was the target of antisemitic abuse.
Prisca Thevenot, France's government spokesperson, attacked on the campaign trail
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