Rfi France.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his far-right election rival Marine Le Pen traded blows on Tuesday over claims that all meat in the Paris region is halal, prepared according to Islamic law.
The National Front’s Le Pen, trailing both Sarkozy and Socialist frontrunner François Hollande ahead of the April 22 vote, made the claim at a rally on Saturday and pledged
to file a legal complaint for “misrepresentation of products”.
Campaigning on Tuesday in Rungis, home of the main wholesale food market serving the Paris metropolitan area, Sarkozy accused Le Pen of creating an artificial controversy and getting her facts wrong.
“There is no controversy here. Every year we consume 200,000 tonnes of meat in the Paris region and 2.5 per cent of it is kosher or halal,” Sarkozy said.
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