Protester throws tomatoes at Emmanuel Macron during public walkabout days after election victory

A protester has launched tomatoes at Emmanuel Macron during his first election victory walkabout in France, Report informs referring to Daily Mail.

The reelected president was meeting voters at a market in Cergy, northwest of Paris, when he was targeted.

The En Marche! leader was not directly hit but it sent his security team into a frenzy, shouting 'Projectile!' as they tried to shield the leader.

They opened an umbrella and Macron lifted his hands above his head as they tried to stop the rain of cherry tomatoes landing on him.

The president can be heard saying, 'it's not serious', before he was ushered away by his bodyguards.

Another angle shows the protester launching himself from a table into the crowd, starting a scuffle, before he was detained.

It was the first time Macron took to the streets since Sunday's vote and the visit was only announced by the Elysee Palace this morning.

He chose the region where he received fewer votes than left-wing candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the first round in his bid to heal a divided France.

The 44-year-old told voters today: “I have come to say that I have heard the voices of each and everyone, and that I will continue to be committed to the neighborhoods that are most in difficulty, of all the territories of our Republic that are most in difficulty, every day.”