Egg thrown at Emmanuel Macron during food trade fair

No details have been released by authorities about the identity of the man who threw the egg or his motivations.
Egg thrown at Emmanuel Macron during food trade fair

French president Emmanuel Macron, left, at the food fair. Picture: Ludovic Marin, Pool Photo via AP

French president Emmanuel Macron was hit on the shoulder with an egg thrown at him by a man during a visit to an international food trade fair in the city of Lyon.

A video of the incident, widely shared on social media, shows Mr Macron walking through the crowd when an egg bounces off him without breaking.

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