'Shame', 'anger', 'chaos': Papers react to polarising riots in France
French papers blame weak policing and political opportunism as hundreds of thousands marched peacefully and violence, vandalism and looting spread nationwide.
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From the American press to the Spanish and British daily newspapers and to El Salvador, the images of chaos—cars, looted businesses, police officers injured during the riots of 17 and 18 October—are headlines. And the critics focus on the same man: Emmanuel Macron, whose powerlessness is highlighted by several foreign newspapers.
Anyone walking the Paris boulevards on Sunday afternoon could feel the "shame and anger" that President Emmanuel Macron spoke of after a weekend of violent riots. [...]
The Malaysian Chinese-language daily "Sin Chew Jit Poh" broadens the focus by establishing a link between the day of chaos that shook France on October 17 and the protest movements that swarmed elsewhere in Europe that same weekend.
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