.... Le Pen was repeating claims made in a TV documentary in which François Hallepée, the head of Ile-de-France cattle breeders, said all abattoirs in the region were slaughtering according to Muslim ritual.
President Sarkozy made an unscheduled early morning visit to the Rungis food market outside Paris on Tuesday morning where he said Le Pen's claims were "groundless."
"We eat 200,000 tonnes of meat every year in the Ile-de-France and only 2.5 percent is halal," he said. [The Local] Read more
