Protest fears hit minister's wedding
Fears of protests over the gypsy crackdown have forced immigration minister Eric Besson to change his wedding plans
IMMIGRATION minister Eric Besson has changed the date of his marriage to a Tunisian student over fears it will be hit by protests on the gypsy crackdown.
Mr Besson, 52, was due to marry Yasmine Tordjman, 24, in Paris on September 16, but the couple decided to change the date and location after a Facebook group called for a protest.
The decision comes after tens of thousands demonstrated across France on Saturday against the government’s immigration policies.
The minister said on France 5 he did not want to have a police guard for his wedding. His new wife, ex-wife and children should not be “collateral damage for my political choices”.
Nearly 1,000 people had signed up to “create havoc” at the wedding in former Garde des Sceaux Rachida Dati’s 7th arrondissement.
Former Socialist Mr Besson attacked newspaper Le Parisien, which printed a story on Friday about the planned protest, and then hit back on his own Facebook page saying he still “believed in the distinction between public and private life”.
Ms Tordjman, the daughter of Wassila Bourguiba, the second wife of former Tunisian president Habib Bourguiba, is studying art.
