A conference in Paris on Le Web 3 turned into a French farce when it was hijacked by presidential hopeful Nicolas Sarkovy and used as a political platform.

Even though Neville Hobson missed it, he gives a great view on the outrage felt by bloggers, and this pic by Ben Metcalfe says it all.

One of the bloggers who attended, Tom Raftery describes the reasons:

“The conference was completely hijacked and changed from a conference about new web technologies into a presidential campaign for the next French election. Two of the candidates, Nicolas Sarkozy and François Bayrou were parachuted in to the conference schedule at the last minute, displacing other speakers.â€?

Simon Collister who attended also highlights the French fall out on his excellent post.

Organiser Loic Le Meur makes no secret of the fact that he supports Sarkovy, and, like American politicians, French politicians are keen to have bloggers on their side too; there were 1,000 people from 35 countries at the conference. But this was obviously not the right time or place to go into overdrive about politics. It is a shame that what should have been a positive for this high profile conference turned into a negative. If you were there, I would love to hear your comments about it.