Eggs and flour are for making bread and pancakes. But residents of Ibi town in southeastern Spain have a different use for the baking ingredients.

Every 28 December, the town holds the Els Enfarinats festival where participants in military uniforms pelt each other with eggs and flour. The messy fun is said to reenact a coup d’etat in the town 200 years ago, though it’s unclear why eggs and flour were the weapons.

Nevertheless, Els Enfarinats attracts adventure-seeking locals and foreigners.

In Toulouse, France, the same antics were displayed by haters of the far-right National Rally party.

The party’s leader, Jordan Bardella, was attending an event in Moissac, southwest France on 29 November to promote his latest book when a man broke an egg on his head, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reports.

The suspected attacker, a 74-year-old man, was taken into custody and charged with violence against a public official, prosecutor Montauban Bruno Sauvage told AFP.

Earlier, on 25 November, Bardella was visiting an agricultural fair at Vesoul, in eastern France, when a 17-year-old boy threw flour at him.

Police detained the youngster before releasing him the following day to attend a course on citizenship, his punishment.

Despite the harassment, Bardella said he is not afraid of the leftists. In fact, he is confident that his National Rally party will win the presidential election in 2027, and he will succeed President Emmanuel Macron.