Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe PARIS, March 30 (UPI) -- All four major contenders in France's presidential race have built headquarters at the Internet game Second Life. The 3-D fantasy world headquarters of one candidate, Jean-Marie Le Pen, was destroyed by protesters wielding exploding pig grenades, The Washington Post reported Friday. Advertisement "The emergence of political headquarters represents the next generation of Internet-based political campaigning," said Wagner James Au, a Second Life blogger who witnessed the attack against Le Pen's virtual headquarters. The campaigns of the major French candidates say candidate Segolene Royal's Second Life headquarters averages 20,000 visitors daily, Le Pen's averages 11,000, Nicolas Sarkozy's averages 10,000 and Francois Bayrou receives about 7,000 daily visitors. "The French are by far the most passionate about real-world politics in Second Life," Au told the Post. "The U.S. candidates' sites are like ghost towns, for the most part, while the French headquarters for Le Pen and Segolene Royal have been quite active."
