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Man rams car into palace gate in France
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A theater director rammed a car into the rear gate of the French presidential palace yesterday in protest over government funding cuts for the arts, police and state officials said.
The 67-year-old Italian Attilio Maggiulli was arrested as he attempted to force his way through the 19th-century Grille du Coq, or Rooster Gate, which leads into the gardens of the Elysee palace near the Champs-Elysees, according to the officials.
Maggiulli was protesting against cuts in subsidies to his small Parisian theater, the Italian Comedy, a police source said. He was slightly injured in the collision and was being held in custody at a Parisian hospital.
The source said Maggiulli had already been arrested on Wednesday afternoon near the palace after pulling a model Harlequin — a comic theater character — from his car and setting it on fire.
“He then threw around some leaflets denouncing the cuts in subsidies for his theater,” the source said. Police had arrested him but let him go shortly afterwards.
Socialist President Francois Hollande has cut into France’s traditionally generous culture budget to reduce the deficit.
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