Violent clashes, looting and buildings ablaze in France as more than 1,800 arrested after protests
Police said violent groups and looters drove the unrest, leaving more than 500 people in custody and hundreds of officers injured.
- Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez confirmed French security forces arrested over 1,800 individuals across Paris, Marseille, Lyon, and Limoges following severe overnight clashes, widespread looting, and acts of arson.
- Nationwide demonstrations protesting high inflation and four weeks of high school facility grievances turned violent as groups clashed with riot police and set public buildings—including Limoges' historic town hall—on fire.
- Emergency responders reported that approximately 500 police officers, firefighters, and paramedics sustained injuries during the disorder, while local authorities confirmed extensive property damage to commercial storefronts and vehicles.
- High school student blockades merged with broader economic protests over living costs, prompting police to suspend certain riot-control stun grenades after a 15-year-old protester suffered severe injuries.
- President Emmanuel Macron and ministry officials condemned the destruction, attributing the escalating violence to radical factions while judicial authorities opened formal investigations into those detained.
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Nearly 1,800 people have been arrested, wounded more than 500 policemen, gendarmes and firemen. The first estimates of damages are hundreds of millions of euros
Many streets in Paris, Marseilles or Lyon have been completely razed to the ground. In the capital alone there were 855 arrests, a record number. Emmanuel Macron will address the nation this afternoon.
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French police arrest 1,800 after violent clashes and looting mar protests
PARIS — Police arrested at least 1,800 people across France after violent groups clashed with officers and looted shops during nationwide demonstrations that drew hundreds of thousands of people who denounced rising living costs and poor conditions in schools. Authorities said masked groups on Saturday set fires and attacked public buildings, including city halls, in several cities. In Limoges, a city in central France, flames engulfed the 19th-…
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French protesters damaged some 1,500 shops, reaching hundreds of millions of euros.
Mass protests erupted in France, Belgium, Italy and Portugal on Saturday over rising living costs. In several French cities, the protests turned violent, with looting and arson, the historic town hall in Limoges largely destroyed and authorities arresting around 1,200 people. In this article, we follow the events of Sunday minute by minute.
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