A building housing the far-right French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen’s campaign headquarters has been hit by an arson attempt. Only minor damage was caused, reports The Guardian.
Firefighters were called at 2.40am on Thursday to the ground-floor offices on the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, in central Paris.
A fire service spokesman said the fire was quickly brought under control and damaged only the door and a doormat.
The upper floors of the building, on one of the French capital’s most exclusive streets, close to the president’s Élysée Palace, house Le Pen’s campaign offices.
The anti-globalisation, anti-EU Le Pen is neck-and-neck with centrist Emmanuel Macron in polls for the first round of the election on 23 April.
A police source said the cause of the fire was “not natural and probably criminal”, adding that the graffiti slogan “FN vs KLM” was found nearby.