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March 1st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Shouting “Sarkozy, president of the rich” and “Sarkozy, get lost,” the protesters stopped the president and chased him into the Bar du Palais in central Bayonne where he was campaigning for reelection in the city on Thursday.
Some Basque nationalists also shouted slogans and demanded more autonomy for the region and threw pieces of paper at the president.
Riot police immediately surrounded the bar but some of the protesters threw eggs toward the barrier that police later set up to guard the bar.
Sarkozy condemned the “thuggish behavior” of the protesters and claimed the protesters were organized by his rival Socialist candidate Francois Hollande.
“Here, we’re in France, on the territory of the French republic, and the president of the republic will go everywhere,” Sarkozy told reported inside the bar, adding, “And if that doesn’t please a minority of troublemakers, too bad for them.”
Hollande’s spokesman, Manuel Valls, however, denied any involvement in the incident, saying, “Francois Hollande and all his team condemn all violence.”
Sarkozy left the bar about an hour later escorted by riot police and protected by an umbrella.
Opinion polls have repeatedly predicted that Sarkozy will lose to Hollande in a run-off on May 6, but the incumbent president’s supporters are hoping that he can regenerate the momentum that brought him to office in 2007.
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