She was taken to the hospital and prosecutors have opened an investigation. These are the first words of Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet after her aggression in Paris.
Prior to the assault, her attacker, a male in his 50's was heard calling Kosciusko Morizet a 'crappy bobo, ' reported AFP, a derogatory term for "bourgeois urban dwellers".
She had been handing out Republican party election leaflets when the man pushed them in her face, causing Kosciusko-Morizet to lose her balance, witnesses said.
He also tried to throw her campaign leaflets in her face and made reference to Paris" Socialist mayor, Anne Hidalgo, saying: "It's your fault we have Hidalgo as mayor'.
It was Ms Hidalgo who later called the assault in Maubert square (Place Maubert) "cowardly and intolerable", and called for everything to be done to bring him to justice.
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An extreme leftist attacked Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet a former french minister on the street of Paris.
She is now standing to re-enter parliament in her central Paris constituency and had been campaigning for the Republican party ahead of Sunday's elections, where President Emmanuel Macron's party is expected to win a landslide victory. She lost consciousness for a few moments after banging her head on the ground.
Paramedics treated her at the scene, and then rushed her to hospital, where her condition was later described as stable.
She was the only woman in the race for this year's Republican presidential nomination.
At one point NKM was seen as a potential candidate for the centrist government but chose to run for the National Assembly for the Republicans.
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