Chirac assassin bragged on neo-Nazi website

THE young neo-Nazi who tried to assassinate the French president warned of his plans to cohorts on a British extremist Internet site.

“Watch the TV This Sunday, I will be the star,” read a message posted on the Combat 18 Internet site. It was signed Maxime and posted on July 13.

On July 14 Maxime Brunerie pulled a rifle from a guitar case as President Jacques Chirac passed by during the Bastille Day military parade.

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