Leftist Group Tries to Intimidate Le Pen Supporters

A campaign headquarters for French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen was firebombed in the early hours of Thursday morning.

Firefighters were called to the building on Paris’ Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honore a little before 3 a.m., after an unidentified suspect threw a Molotov cocktail at the building.

“These groups act in total impunity.”

The fire was “quickly brought under control,” said a spokesman for the fire department, while a police spokesman said only minor damage was done to the building’s door and doormat.

“I assume this is due to a small leftist group,” Le Pen told state broadcaster France 2 TV. “These groups act in total impunity,” she added, and said that the government should disband them.

Indeed, AFP said they were contacted soon after the attack by a representative of a group called Combattre la xénophobie (“Combat Xenophobia”), which claimed responsibility for the attack. Graffiti reading “FN vs KLX” was found scrawled outside the building.

The group’s spokesman reportedly told AFP they would execute similar attacks “every day up until the elections.”

The phenomenon of violent left-wing groups attacking political opponents is not confined to France, and indeed seems to be on the rise across the West as the Left watches with hate as nationalism and populism positions grow in popularity.

In the U.S., a series of peaceful pro-Trump rallies at the end of March were struck by violence perpetrated by far-Left activists. At one rally in Huntington, California, one radical activist assaulted the rally’s organizer, a middle-aged woman, with pepper spray. Similar violence occurred at Trump campaign rallies during the election.

Meanwhile, college campuses now seem to erupt into mini riot zones with every visit from a speaker whose views clash with leftist orthodoxy.

Last week, a mob of roughly 200 students used threats and intimidation to prevent people from seeing a talk by Heather Mac Donald, author of “The War on Cops.”

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“I have to confess, without wanting to sound hyperbolic or melodramatic, I got a little clue of what it would feel like to be in the French Revolution, waiting for the mob to bring you to the guillotine,” Mac Donald told Fox News host Bill O’Reilly following the incident. “There was a level of hysteria, and you don’t know what is going to happen next,” she said.

Only a few weeks earlier, Charles Murray, columnist and co-author of “The Bell Curve,” was assaulted when trying to give a talk at Middlebury College.

“These are unacceptable acts,” France’s Interior Minister Matthias Fekl said of the attack on the Front National’s headquarters. “The democratic debate must take place in the ballot box.”