Events in France: 350 Arrests on Sunday and in the Night in Paris, some 30 Looted Shops
- France recorded about 2,400 arrests after weekend protests over living costs and poor schools turned violent, with businesses and public buildings attacked.
- Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu asked local officials to consider limited, localized curfews, while Marseille banned gatherings from noon to 8 p.m.
- President Emmanuel Macron rejected Interior Minister Laurent Nunez’s resignation and ordered reviews of police preparedness and intelligence failures.
- Authorities reported widespread damage, including damage to businesses and a burned city hall in Limoges.
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Analysis by Tim Lister, CNN “We have a big problem on our hands, to put it bluntly,” said French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu on Monday. If anything, he fell short of his description. After the widespread disturbances of the weekend—which are estimated to have caused material damage and theft worth hundreds of millions of
The slogan was clear: it cannot happen again. France, the 5th Republic and the government of Emmanuel Macron could not afford another night of riots and vandalism . Therefore, the Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu, and the Minister of the Interior, Laurent Nuñez, decreed curfews in several areas of the country. In Paris, the capital, restrictions were limited to places where violence had been concentrated , such as the square of the Republic and…
France announces curfews amid street violence
France announced partial curfews in Paris and other cities on Monday after weekend demonstrations over soaring prices degenerated into some of the worst street violence in recent years. Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu did not rule out imposing a state of emergency after the interior minister said police had "lost control". Tourists in Paris had a taste of the disruption on Monday when they found the Louvre closed because of a small group of stu…
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