Woman throws pumpkin seeds at Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
Trudeau was leaving city hall after meeting with the mayor, when Ute Schmid-Jones, a former Green Party candidate, hurled the seeds at him, shouting, “Keep your promises!”
The security immediately confronted and brought the woman to the ground.
Later Schmid-Jones said on social media that she had intended to give Trudeau the seeds and would have tossed them at his feet, but because of the tense crowd the seeds got hurled at Justin Trudeau.
Earlier, she had been seen with a man who identified himself as David Johnson holding a banner reading “No New Pipelines”.
Johnson admitted that he did not know that Schmid-Jones was carrying pumpkin seeds.
Schmid-Jones had been taken away by RCMP officers for questioning, but it was not clear if she was being charged.
(Reporting by Asha Bajaj)
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