MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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French politician left unconscious while out campaigning, after attack for being a "shitty bobo"
By artappraiser on Fri, 06/16/2017 - 12:40am |By Kim Willsher from Paris @ TheGuardian.com. June 15
A French politician and candidate in this Sunday’s parliamentary elections was left unconscious after an altercation with a protester while out campaigning. Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, a former government minister who unsuccessfully stood to be mayor of Paris, was approached and insulted by a passerby as she handed out leaflets in a market in the city. When the man, described as middle-aged, grabbed the leaflets and tried to throw them in her face, NKM, as she is known, put her hand up to protect herself, then appeared to lose her balance and fall.
Witnesses said the man, who shouted that she was a “shitty bobo”, a shortened term for a bourgeois-bohemian that is often used as an insult to the city’s wealthy middle-class professionals, ran off into the nearby Métro when he saw her collapse on the ground [.....]
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/15/french-female-politician-left-unconscious-while-out-campaigning
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