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Topless Protester Gets Within Feet of Trump’s Motorcade In Paris
By Dominique Mosbergen
A topless female protester was seized by French police on Sunday morning as she ran toward the motorcade carry- ing
President Donald Trump.
The U.S. leader had been en route to a ceremony at Paris’ Arc de Triomphe marking the 100-year anniversary of the armistice that ended World War I.
The protester, who had the words “Fake Peacemaker” writ- ten across her chest and anti-war slogans scrawled on other parts of her body, had somehow man- aged to breach tight security along Champs-Elysees avenue, Reuters reported.
She came within a
few feet of Trump’s limousine before she was caught by police.
At least one other topless protester also reportedly made it onto the avenue as Trump’s motor- cade was driving by but was stopped by police before she got close to the cars.
FEMEN, a Ukrainian radical feminist activist group known for its provocative protests, claimed responsibility for the stunt.
Dozens of world leaders, including Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron, Russian
President Vladimir Putin and Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan, gathered on Sunday at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier under the Arc de Triomphe to com- memorate the cen- tenary of the end- ing of the First World War, which began in the sum- mer of 1914.
Inna Shevchenko, a FEMEN leader, said in a series of tweets that the attendance of leaders like Trump, Putin and Erdogan ― who she lambasted as “war criminals” ― had transformed the commemora- tive event “into a sad spectacle which is entertain-
ing only for the criminals partici- pating in it,” per a Bloomberg trans- lation.
“They’ve come to celebrate peace but they’re promot- ing
war,” Shevchenko wrote.
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