Khalid, 31, a resident of the capital, was caught last night eating a plate of French fries. His friends, who caught him in the act, recorded the whole incident and uploaded a video of it on social media, where it instantly went viral with 62 likes and eight shares.

Khalid had earlier made a proclamation of boycotting French products after Karim Benzema, star footballer, was once again overlooked for the France National Team.

"I cannot believe they did not select Benzema once again. Yes, he made some mistakes, but look at his form over the past few years. He should have been selected just for that alone," Khalid had said at the time. "I will no longer buy French products until this great oversight has been corrected."

But less than a week after making the announcement, Khalid has been found to be violating it.

Khalid's friend Walid explained what he saw last night. "We heard some crunching sounds and followed the noise to the living room. There we saw Khalid sitting down with a bottle of hot sauce in one hand and a plate of French fries on the other.

"At first we did not say anything, because we weren't sure what he was planning on doing. Maybe he would make a post with the fries and explain his views. But no, we then saw that he was actually eating the fries with no regard for what he had said," Walid explained.

Contacted, Khalid said the whole thing was being blown out of proportion. "I was boycotting the make-up brands and the noodles brand. But let's be honest, I do not really buy original products so the movement was not as impactful as I thought.

"Still I kept going. But the French fries, I call them Benzema fries. I made them with my own potatoes and I did not use anything from France for making it. It's just the name, but what's in a name," he asked.   Khalid, who had gained some sort of following after his boycotts had begun, is now considered a virtue-signaling fraud.