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Article: Michelle Obama dodges protesters and kisses Carla
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- April 4, 2009
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It was perhaps not what Michelle Obama expected on her first presidential foray to France. But it was certainly very French.
Anti-war and anti-capitalist protesters tangled the streets of the Alsatian city of Strasbourg and thwarted her planned visit to an anti-cancer research center with other spouses of NATO leaders.
Police barricades and narrow pedestrian streets that wind through the city center meant she couldn't get there and back by motorcade.
So the visit was shelved, and they had an unplanned coffee with the French first lady instead. A few kilometers (miles) away, Molotov cocktails and tear gas canisters exploded as protesters pushed back riot police, filling the ...