Overview
- A provisional nationwide count reports around 100 arrests during the night, with significant property damage including about 80 vehicles burned in Strasbourg, and authorities say figures will be updated.
- In central Marseille, a man in his thirties was critically injured in a stabbing; suspected assailants fled and the local police judicial service has taken over the investigation.
- Law-enforcement reported repeated mortar-style pyrotechnic attacks and confrontations in several cities, including Reims, Lens, Nantes and Nîmes, and a minor in Chelles lost three fingers handling an explosive device.
- Roughly 90,000 police and gendarmes were mobilized nationwide, including about 10,000 in Paris, where hundreds of thousands gathered on the Champs-Élysées for fireworks under bag checks and alcohol restrictions.
- At 23:30, the Association Antoine Alléno, with City of Paris support, projected “2036” on the Arc de Triomphe to publicize the new homicide routier offense and its 10‑year maximum sentence, as critics questioned zero‑tolerance rhetoric given jammed prisons.