In the same year that France has hosted two of television’s most glamorous and escapist international hits — the final season of Netflix’s “Emily in Paris” and Season 4 of HBO’s “The White Lotus” — the country has been shaken by one of its most violent waves of rioting in decades. What began as nationwide
France will impose a total ban on protests in the country’s second and third largest cities, Marseille and Lyon, this weekend. In the parts of the country where protests are not banned completely, only authorised union protests will be allowed on Saturday, President Emmanuel Macron said. The Louvre, Orsay and Picasso museums in Paris will
French President Emmanuel Macron has accused foreign leaders of exploiting the riots which erupted across the country on Saturday for electoral purposes. Without naming them, he said they were campaigning for forthcoming elections “at France’s expense” with their comments on the violence, which erupted on the fringe of cost-of-living protests. Speaking on a visit to
In Saint-Denis suburb on Monday, I met Lisa Cordat, of the FSE student union. She told me that students organised themselves for demos via social media messaging or through student-led organisations. She said it was “insulting” to suggest they were being manipulated or “told to do this, or do that” by politicians. “Student anger comes
Targeted curfews across France contributed to a quiet night following a weekend of riots and looting across the country, the Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has said. Curfews were introduced across parts of central Paris, including Place de la République, where protesters had gathered over the weekend, and the Les Halles shopping area. Other measures restricting
The fire that badly damaged Limoges’ 19th-century city hall was set on purpose, the local prefect said. By Sunday it was under control, and France was counting the damage: more than 2,400 arrests on Saturday alone, according to authorities, nearly 1,000 police and gendarmes injured, and hundreds of businesses looted in Paris, Marseille, Lyon, and
