NANTERRE, FR. (THECOUNT) — The teenage daughter of French populist leader Marine Le Pen was violently assaulted outside a bowling alley bar in Nanterre, forcing her to be taken to a local hospital in the area.
The attack on the 19-year-old took place at the exit of a bowling alley bar at Place Nelson Mandela on Thursday night while she and her 18-year-old cousin were leaving the bar, reports say.
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Two men aged 32 and 47 from Nanterre approached the two and physically assaulted them at around 2 am, Le Parisien reports. After the police were called, the two suspects were arrested at the scene when officers arrived at the bar. Investigators have so far not commented on the cause of the attack but the cousin of Ms Le Pen’s daughter has filed charges with police against the two men. source
The incident provoked outrage from the former French presidential candidate who called the attack a “gratuitous aggression,” and added: “there was no fight … there was an assault, a gratuitous assault on two young people aged 18 and 19.”
Physical attacks on populist politicians and their supporters are nothing new, though attacks on their families are rare.
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