State visit meals given to needy

FOOD intended for an official banquet at Paris’s City Hall to mark the State Visit of King Felipe VI of Spain will be distributed among needy people in the capital.

The food would otherwise have gone to waste after the monarch cancelled his official visit following yesterday’s Airbus A320 crash in Alpes-de-Haute Provence.

It will now be divided into 150 meal trays and taken to temporary accommodation centres in the French capital, Le Parisien reports

King Felipe and Queen Letizia had just arrived at the Elysée Palace for a meeting with President Francois Hollande when news broke of the tragedy in the southern Alps, and joined him in expressing their shock..

They were due to be received at Paris’s City Hall today, for an official banquet.

Food from a planned State dinner at the Elysée was also offered to associations helping people in need in Paris, France 2 has reported.

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