A critic of French President Francois Hollande dumped tonnes of horse manure in front of the national parliament building in Paris on Thursday in a pungent protest against French politics.
“Out with Hollande and the entire political class.” read a message on the side of the man’s articulated truck.
The unnamed the person behind the act was detained 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.
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.
