(AFP) The Tunisia-born baker who just won the coveted annual award for the best baguette in Paris has been caught up in a row over claims he shared extremist posts on social media.
Makram Akrout, whose achievement last month in beating off 173 rivals for the award was hailed as an immigrant success story in France, did not take part in a ceremony at the weekend to receive his prize.
By tradition, the winner of the prestigious award is given a contract to supply the presidential Elysee Palace with baguettes for a year, but this will now reportedly not be the case.
Screen grabs published by an anonymous Twitter user claimed to show that Akrout had shared, on a now-deleted Facebook account, posts expressing Islamist ideas and anti-French sentiments.
