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By Elinor Mills
InfoWorld Electric
Posted at 1:27 PM PT, Feb 4, 1998
An anarchist group with a sweet tooth but no Windows vendetta
has taken responsibility for throwing a cream pie in the face
of Microsoft Chairman and CEO Bill Gates on Wednesday in Brussels,
Belgium.
The incident happened as Gates was walking from his car toward
the Concert Noble hall for an education conference attended by
450 business and government leaders and sponsored by the Flemish
government, Microsoft representative Erin Brewer said.
At least one pie was thrown at him before Gates was led into the
building with cream covering his glasses and dripping onto his
dark suit, according to reports by the Associated Press and Dow
Jones.
Two men were taken into custody and others are believed to have
been involved, Brewer said. However, Gates is not going to press
charges, she said. 
The men apparently were not motivated by software politics.
"A group based out of Belgium makes it a practice of targeting
public figures with these pranks," Brewer said. "They are notorious
for throwing pies for publicity and possibly even for commercial
profit to sell pictures or [video] footage."
Noel Godin, the leader of the group that calls itself L'Antartreur,
claimed responsibility for the incident on Belgian TV, according
to Brewer. But throwing pie in Gates' face apparently didn't satisfy
Godin, who indicated he was disappointed at Gates' humble reaction,
she said.
"Bill was able to laugh about it and, fortunately, clean up and
move on," Brewer said.
Microsoft Corp., in Redmond, Wash., can be reached at http://www.microsoft.com/.
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