Click to flour-bomb French candidate Hollande - a new online game

Feb 8, 2012, 12:06 GMT

Paris - After being doused with flour on the campaign trail last week, French Socialist presidential frontrunner Francois Hollande is trying to dodge a flurry of online flour bombs.

Hollande was showered by a white haze last Wednesday, while attending the launch of a report on France's housing crisis.

The 45-year-old woman who threw a bag of flour at his head said she was 'being murdered by Socialists' in her home city of Lille.

The incident inspired a website (www.fh-2012.com), which encourages people to take aim at cartoon images of a bespectacled Hollande popping up behind a podium marked 'Change is Now,' his campaign slogan, and shower them in flour.

The aim is to notch up as many hits as possible in 50 seconds.

The site claims that 750,000 people had already played the game.

Hollande has downplayed the flour attack, putting it down to 'occupational hazards.'

A day later the government beefed up his security to 15 police officers. The additional guards had been planned before the attack, as part of the security plans for the leading presidential candidates.