Occupational hazard? The world leaders who faced slaps, shoes, tomatoes and more

Emmanuel Macron, who recently won the French Presidential election, was targeted on April 26 with tomatoes, which were hurled by a disgruntled onlooker when he made his first public appearance after his re-election victory. 

He was targetted before also, in June 2021, he was slapped in the face by a man while greeting locals on another trip. In the past, Macron was also hit by egg that was thrown from the crowd in Lyon. 

Watch the video when Macron was slapped: 

After the viral Macron-tomatoes incident, people are talking about other incidents involving world leaders and top politicians. 

Former United States President George W Bush was attacked on December 14, 2008, when journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi threw his shoes at him during an Iraqi press conference. While throwing the shoes, the journo apparently shouted: "This is a farewell kiss from the Iraqi people, you dog." 

The incidents related to Macron and Bush were not meant to cause severe injury, however, what former Italian Prime Minister Silvia Berlusconi faced was quite serious. 

On 13 December 2009, a man hit Berlusconi with a metal replica of Milan's cathedral at a campaign rally in Milan, leaving the ex-Italian Prime Minister bleeding profusely. He lost two teeth and his nose was also broken. 

Another world leader who suffered injuries was Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. He was stabbed which caused some severe injuries in his abdomen. He was later hospitalised.

The incident happened when Bolsonaro was campaigning. Media reports later mentioned that the attack was politically motivated. 

In 2019, a man identified as Paul Crowther, 32, hurled a milkshake at Nigel Farage, who was the leader of Britain's Brexit Party.

The man was ordered to pay compensation to cover Farage's suit-cleaning bill after pleading guilty to common assault and criminal damage. 

Crowther threw the milkshake over Farage at an event in the northern English city of Newcastle.

On May 16, 2001, the United Kingdom's former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott was pelted with an egg during a visit to Rhyl in north Wales to speak at a rally.

He grabbed eyeballs when he punched the man who threw the egg. 

On March 15, 2019, Australian Senator Fraser Anning was smashed with an egg on the head by 17-year-old Will Connolly, who got famous as "Eggboy". 

During the incident, Anning was seen striking him, which was heavily condemned. 

In 2016, a woman threw ink on the Arvind Kejriwal, the chief minister of the Indian capital, New Delhi. Kejriwal was smeared with ink when he was addressing a public gathering on the odd-even scheme. The woman was sent to one-day police custody. 

The woman was identified as Bhavna Arora. She had accused Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government of being involved in a CNG scam.