Prince Charles' floral assailent to run for EP

RIGA 's Alina Lebedeva, whose fame came from her notorious floral attack on Prince Charles in 2001, is now the second person on the list of candidates to the European Parliament.  

The representatives of the obscure For Motherland said that there were 11 candidate MEPs on their list and Alina Lebedeva was second after the party leader Jurijs Zuravlovs.

At the time of the attack, Lebedeva was 16 years old and said she had intended to slap the prince with flowers as a protest against war in Afghanistan in which the UK was also involved. The incident happened during the prince's public appearance in Riga as he was accepting flowers from children.

After the incident, the Latvian Security opened a criminal case against Lebedeva for endangering the health and life of a foreign dignitary that could get her up to 15 years in jail but later the charges were downgraded to hooliganism and then dropped altogether at the request by Prince Charles.

Later, Lebedeva joined the local supporters of the Russian extremists, National Bolsheviks, who have been outlawed in Latvia for their radical views and unconventional forms of protest.

In December 2004 she was among the crowd that stormed the offices of the Russian president's administration and spent two years in prison for the crime.