Angry critic of President Hollande dumps manure on French Parliament

 
Delivery: tonnes of manure were dumped outside the French Parliament
Robin de Peyer16 January 2014

A disgruntled critic of Francois Hollande has dumped tonnes of horse manure outside the French Parliament as allegations of an affair continue to cause a stink for the country's President.

In an angry gesture aimed at riling France's ruling elite, the man made the delivery using an articulated truck daubed with the message: "Out with Hollande and the entire political class. Long live the Sixth Republic."

France's current Republic - the fifth - was founded in 1958 with Charles de Gaulle as its first President.

The unnamed perpetrator was held by police before he was able to shed all of his truckload of dung at the steps of the Bourbon Palace, the building that houses the lower house of parliament on the edge of the Seine river in downtown Paris, witnesses said. Authorities began a mass clear-up operation.

Hollande, hit by magazine allegations of a love affair with an actress and battling to restore the fortunes of Europe's second-largest economy, has the lowest popularity ratings of any leader in modern-day France.

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