Updated: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 17:31:02 GMT | By Agence France-Presse

France's Hollande with minimum protection at Rio summit

French President Francois Hollande attended the Rio Earth summit last week with minimum protection after his bodyguards left their firearms in Paris, sources close to the case said Tuesday.


France's Hollande with minimum protection at Rio summit

France's Hollande with minimum protection at Rio summit

The elite GSPR unit which protects the French leader normally travels with a briefcase that contains the weapons, but on their arrival in Brazil on June 19 the bodyguards realised that the weapons had stayed behind at Hollande's office in the Elysee palace.

Weekly satirical newspaper Le Canard Enchaine said Hollande's protection had been "bare-handed".

An officer responsible for the neglect was dismissed from the unit because he reportedly tried to blame it on somebody else.

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