“Lots of surprises on this May first,” Le Pen said in reaction to FEMEN’s antics. “It’s quite a paradox when you call yourself a feminist and try to disturb a tribute to Joan of Arc.”
Topless FEMEN activists disrupted Marine Le Pen’s May Day speech in Paris as well as a tribute to Joan of Arc at a rally hosted by France’s National Front party. Activists with anti-Le Pen slogans covering their bodies carried out a Nazi salute.
Le Pen, the leader of the National Front, was approaching the memorial to Joan of Arc to lay flowers on it when two FEMEN activists with “TOP fascist Le Pen” painted on their chests and backs interrupted the ceremony. John of Arc is one of France’s most revered heroines and was beatified as a Roman Catholic saint after her death.
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