MARINE Le Pen was attacked on stage by a topless woman with with a bunch of flowers as her campaign rally was marred by protesters throwing missiles at police.
A woman tried to protest whilst Ms Le Pen was speaking on stage to the party faithful during a rally by the far-right party ahead of Sunday’s first round of presidential voting.
However, the woman was dragged off the stage by bodyguards.
According to the organisation’s website: “Our Mission is Protest! Our Weapon are bare breasts! And so FEMEN is born and sextremism is set off.
The French right-wing leader addressed around 5,000 Front National (FN) supporters at the Zenith concert hall in the north of the city this afternoon, ahead of the upcoming presidential elections. But there was chaos on the streets outside as menacing masked demonstrators dressed in black clashed with cops.
Troublemakers hurled objects including rocks, chunks of wood and smoke bombs at riot police standing between them and the venue.
Officers were seen firing tear gas back in an attempt to keep the mob at bay.
“FEMEN is an international women’s movement of brave topless female activists painted with the slogans and crowned with flowers.
“FEMEN female activists are the women with special training, physically and psychologically ready to implement the humanitarian tasks of any degree of complexity and level of provocation. FEMEN activists are ready to withstand repressions against them and are propelled by the ideological cause alone.
"FEMEN is the special force of feminism, its spearhead militant unit, modern incarnation of fearless and free Amazons.” It is not the first time the feminist group has tried to disrupt an event organised by Marine Le Pen.
A topless protestor was carried out by three security guards at a press conference by the right-wing leader in February this year.
She had writing on her torso and repeatedly yelled: “Marine, fake feminist.”
Following the incident, Femen took to its Facebook page to criticise the politician.
The organisation said: “Nothing in the programme of Marine Le pen promotes the empowerment of women, no proposal was raised to further equality between the sexes.
“Le Pen is a fictitious Republican, she's neither feminist, nor secular, nor for the defence of human rights... yet she is a candidate for the presidential election!” Ms Le Pen used her speech to launch an attack on her rivals, saying they promoted a “savage globalisation”.
She said: "The choice on Sunday is simple: It is a choice between a France that is rising again and a France that is sinking.“
Outside the Zenith concert hall, where the event was held, anti-Front National protestors rioted throwing flares and missiles.
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