Leader of Big Mac attack goes on trial in France

Bove arrives at Millau's courthouse on Friday

June 30, 2000
Web posted at: 10:10 p.m. EDT (0210 GMT)

From CNN correspondent Peter Humi

PARIS (CNN) -- It started with the ransacking of a McDonald's restaurant in rural southwest France. Now the trial of Jose Bove, the mustachioed local farmer who allegedly led the attack, has become a media circus.

Bove is being portrayed, and is portraying himself, as the champion of traditional French values; a true patriot standing up to that most unacceptable face of multiculturalism -- bad food.

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