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Overview
- Violent street unrest on 17 October produced widespread pillaging and disorder in multiple cities and prompted local curfews to try to restore control.
- Interior ministry figures show thousands of detentions after the riots with 2,513 people placed in garde à vue and dozens jailed as police and judicial authorities opened multiple inquiries.
- Parliament paused debate on the State budget to take up the Sécurité sociale bill after deputies rejected key revenue measures and the finance minister said debates have worsened the deficit projection by about €10 billion.
- The Cour des comptes warned that the Sécurité sociale proposal rests on optimistic growth assumptions and growing resort to market borrowing through ACOSS, raising questions about the plan’s durability.
- Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has summoned unions and parties to Matignon to discuss security and social responses while unions plan further mobilisations and local officials protest reallocations of earmarked revenues.