Overview
- Police said 183 of the burned vehicles ignited after fire spread from nearby blazes.
- Bas-Rhin recorded the highest total with 117 vehicles burned, followed by Rhône with 82, Gironde and Val-d'Oise with 36 each, and Nord with 32.
- Roughly thirty similar incidents were also logged in Essonne, Yvelines, Moselle, Isère and Loire-Atlantique.
- The Paris prosecutor’s office reported 125 detentions, including 33 for intentional violence, 15 for group involvement to commit violence or cause damage, and 10 for possession of psychotropic substances.
- Officers reported attacks in cities such as Nîmes and Nanterre, while deliberate fires targeted construction fencing and trash bins, and at least two people lost fingers in fireworks incidents including a 12-year-old in Seine-et-Marne.