Theatre director rams car into Elysee Palace in Paris

[cronus]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25520914

Theatre director rams car into Elysee Palace in Paris

A man has rammed his car into the rear gate of the Elysee Palace, the Paris residence of French President Francois Hollande.

The man was arrested as he tried to force his way through the Grille du Coq gate on Thursday.

Local media identified the man as a 67-year-old theatre director of Italian nationality.

Police officials said he was protesting against cuts in subsidies to his small theatre in Paris.

He had already been arrested on Wednesday near the Elysee Palace after pulling a Harlequin puppet from his car and setting it alight.

"He then threw around some leaflets denouncing the cuts in subsidies for his theatre," a police source told Reuters news agency.

Police had arrested him but let him go shortly afterwards.

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[Svartalf]

The guy is notorious and his sanity is in doubt.

Plus the situation of his theater must be desperate, I thought it closed for a couple years (granted, I no longer work in the arrondissement where it is, so I no longer have fresh news about that neighbourhood)

[cronus]

The guy is notorious and his sanity is in doubt.

Plus the situation of his theater must be desperate, I thought it closed for a couple years (granted, I no longer work in the arrondissement where it is, so I no longer have fresh news about that neighbourhood)

I know the sort, plenty running small ventures are on a loop around here, harmless in good times and revolutionary firebrands when TSHTF with the one true business bottomline.

[pErvinalia]

"Grille du Coq"..... The chicken fence?

[Trinity]

"Grille du Coq"..... The chicken fence?

Sounds so much more glamorous in French

[Svartalf]

Rooster's Gate is more like it actually

[Audley Strange]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25520914

Theatre director rams car into Elysee Palace in Paris

A man has rammed his car into the rear gate of the Elysee Palace, the Paris residence of French President Francois Hollande.

The man was arrested as he tried to force his way through the Grille du Coq gate on Thursday.

Local media identified the man as a 67-year-old theatre director of Italian nationality.

Police officials said he was protesting against cuts in subsidies to his small theatre in Paris.

He had already been arrested on Wednesday near the Elysee Palace after pulling a Harlequin puppet from his car and setting it alight.

"He then threw around some leaflets denouncing the cuts in subsidies for his theatre," a police source told Reuters news agency.

Police had arrested him but let him go shortly afterwards.

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Cue arts luvvie. "How empassioned!"

Cue everyone else. "Daft twat, put on something that makes money rather than demand subsides for minority tastes. The world is in no hurry to see or hear "Nasal Songs: An Olfactory Reminiscence of the Rwandan Genocide."

[mistermack]

At least France was civilised about it.

They didn't execute the poor demented sap in a hail of bullets, like they did that poor loony woman who rammed the White House gates. And she had her child right beside her.

There's the difference right there, between civilised people, and ignorant cunts.