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Overview
- A national mobilisation on Saturday, October 17, against the rising cost of living degenerated in several cities including Paris, Marseille and Lyon into large-scale riots, organised pillaging and widespread property damage.
- Authorities detained nearly 2,400 people and reported about 1,000 police and gendarmes injured, with several officers seriously hurt during repeated clashes and attempts to stop looters.
- President Emmanuel Macron refused Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez’s resignation while ordering changes to policing methods, and Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has asked prefects to impose targeted, partial curfews to protect shops and public buildings.
- Judicial authorities opened sustained investigations and rapid prosecutions, prosecutors said they would pursue the most serious cases, and political leaders pressed online resale platforms to help trace goods sold after the pillages.
- The weekend’s damage hit commerce hard with government and trade groups estimating thousands of shops affected and losses in the hundreds of millions of euros, a shock that has sharpened political scrutiny ahead of the presidential campaign and risks fuelling further mobilisations announced for coming weeks.