Jordan Bardella, leader of France’s far-right National Rally party, was hit on the head with an egg Saturday, just days after another incident in which a protester threw flour at him.
Bardella was at an event in Moissac, southwest France, to promote his latest book when a man broke the egg on his head.
The suspected attacker, a 74-year-old man, was arrested and taken into custody for violence against a public official, prosecutor Montauban Bruno Sauvage told AFP.
A complaint has been filed in Bardella’s name over the incident.
On Tuesday, Bardella was covered in flour during a visit to an agricultural fair at Vesoul, in the east of the country.
Police detained a 17-year-old teenage boy before releasing him the following day, and he will have to attend a course on citizenship.
The goal is to have eventually thrown a cake at him.
Pancakes seem the most appropriate projectile at this point.