https://nypost.com/2026/10/18/world-news/french-police-arrest-1800-protesters-after-violent-clashes-and-looting/PARIS — Police arrested at least 1,800 people across France after violent groups clashed with officers and looted shops during nationwide demonstrations that drew hundreds of thousands of people who denounced rising living costs and poor conditions in schools.Authorities said masked groups on Saturday set fires and attacked public buildings, including city halls, in several cities.In Limoges, a city in central France, flames engulfed the 19th-century City Hall, causing its roof to collapse. Haute-Vienne prefect Maurice Barate told LCI television that the fire was deliberately set and nearly destroyed the building. The fire was under control Sunday.French President Emmanuel Macron will hold an emergency meeting with top government officials on Sunday afternoon, before addressing the nation at 8 p.m., according to his office.“The right to protest is a fundamental right. Deliberately and collectively sowing disorder through violence is not,” Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez wrote on X, pointing to the lootings of hundreds of businesses in Paris, Marseille, Lyon, Bordeaux, Rennes, Strasbourg, Grenoble, Nice, Limoges and other cities.Nuñez and Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu attributed some of the violence to “radical far-left groups” and said others later joined to loot.
>>1543980Paris police said Sunday that 855 people were arrested in the French capital region alone. About 550,000 took part in protests across France, according to authorities, while organizers counted about 800,000. More than 500 police officers, gendarmes and firefighters were injured, Nuñez said.One person died of a heart attack, Paris police said in a statement, without providing details. Paris prosecutors’ office said it was investigating.Around Paris’ Place de la République on Sunday morning, dislodged cobblestones, shattered storefronts and broken glass marked the aftermath of the events. Looting and damage were reported around the square and in some other tourist and shopping areas in the city center.Police said groups numbering from several hundred to more than 1,000 people formed unauthorized marches across central Paris on Saturday. “By late afternoon, a new phase began with the arrival of large numbers of people whose sole aim was to steal and loot, taking advantage of the unrest,” police said.The mayors of Paris, Marseille and Lyon, the country’s three largest cities, requested a meeting with the prime minister in the coming days “given the extent of the damage and the seriousness of the situation.”In the southern port city of Marseille, some protesters briefly forced their way into the lobby of City Hall and a group of people wearing hoods and masks damaged a police station. In Lyon, a fire broke out inside a tourist office.
>2,400 arrests madeGoodhttps://i.postimg.cc/Pxt4v6Z5/makron-supreme-leader-of-the-strogg-emmanuel-macron-french-politician-19573379.pngLe Makron is based.
"students" Who cares though? If the French police and politicians let them burn buildings down, then who am I to judge.
>>1543980stop copying new york riots you goddamn plagerists
>>1543990Some of the buildings being burned can't be rebuilt. The techniques used to build them were lost to time.
>>1543990It’s part and parcel of living in a multicultural society to let Africans burn down historic structures and loot stores in the name of gibs
>>1543993those darn africans, rioting in 1789,1792, 1795, 1815, 1830 and 1832, right. as we all know, victor hugo was actually 102% black
Most if not all of those "students" are white, and 1543993's opinions are proved wrong.
I for one look forward to the far right riding into power on fears of leftist rioters, doing nothing to solve the problems leading people to riot, actively making society worse, and then not even having the balls to violently crack down on rioters and institute a police state as riots naturally spiral even further out of control under their rule.Most of French society deserves what is coming and it will serve as an example for other right wing movements to not start shit you can't finish.Maybe once the far right spectacularly flames out, France can get some actual competent leadership.
>>1543996We can't post the webm here, but in the video going around of the white french lady trying to stop looters the majority going past/looting are not white.
>>1544004>doing nothing to solve the problems leading people to riotIt's a bunch of second and third generation immigrants mad that they're not being given free stuff.
>>1544011>It's a bunch of second and third generation immigrants mad that they're not being given free stuff.As they should be. There's plenty of free shit for the pedophiles raping their economy, but nothing for the commoner keeping the country running.If your government is only working for the banker class, it's time for a new government.
>>1543993>>1544005>>1544011Constantly blaming immigrants for everything literally is part of how it got this bad. Politicians keep scapegoating and refuse to address the actual issues with their economy and funding, because "oh we'll keep those darn immigrants out!" meanwhile the actual issue is underfunded schools and people not being able to afford to live. >inb4: Well uh, those are also the immigrants fault somehow!Again, scapegoating. You could deport every immigrant in the country overnight and it would not change these issues because they've become inherent to the system at this point. Things need to be done about blatant corruption and funding issues or this will just keep happening over and over. Riots like this are the social equivalent of your body giving you a fever when you're sick; focusing on keeping the temperature down isn't actually addressing what is causing the body to do it in the first place.
>ny postThis isn't 'news'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs8x1r4gz4Q
>>1544022What if it is the immigrants, Anon?France has very little corruption compared to bug countries. Maybe it's just the TYPE of immigration?
>>1544030NTA, but corruption isn't a prerequisite for mismanaging government funds. They could just be incompetent.
>What if>reality doesn't allow hypotheticalsSee >>1543996 about reality proving rightard liars' opinions wrong.
>>1544030Anon the primary instigator of these protests were students pissed that their schools were so poorly managed they're literally falling apart from lack of maintenance and funding while there's also a national teacher shortage that meant entire departments literally had no one teaching them. It's not the fucking migrants. It's a history of governmental failings ironically not too dissimilar from the US right now.
>>1544042Exactly, these people in France are protesting for the very thing that conservatives love to champion. The myth of proud conservatives fighting against a corrupt government that is stealing their money and not funding the services they promised. This sort of protest against corrupt government overreach and corruption should be something that American conservatism is cheering on, but MAGA has poisoned conservative’s brains. Now they are pro big government and pro government control over the citizens. Conservatives are so fucking lost.
>>1544044>This sort of protest against corrupt government overreach and corruption should be something that American conservatism is cheering onWhy? American Conservatism has built everything it claims to stand for up as a mere pretense for racism.Using these protests to be racist is entirely par for the course. And since it's not a race riot by white people and/or a pogrom, naturally the way to do that is to attack the rioters.To quote Lee Atwater, former RNC Chair>Y'all don't quote me on this. You start out in 1954 by saying, "Nigger, nigger, nigger". By 1968, you can't say "nigger"—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me—because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this", is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "Nigger, nigger".Remember, Conservatism is about hurting the right people.
>Conservatism is about hurting the right people>MAGAtards voted for that which is financially hurting them. they live in pods (trailers), eat bugs (food with red coloring), own nothing (because they sell their valuables just to afford the basics), and like it>MAGA Republicans support that which is hurting them politically, especially after the midtermsIn a way, that's correct. It's certainly hurting the right, who aren't people. Good
>>1544046your skin color doesn't make you not a person, esl shill
>h-h-how dare you not think the same way as I do?! I-I-I know! I'll project by saying >>1544046 isn't white because he refuses to think the same way I do, and accuse him of being the esl shill!You'll never be white, or people, 1544049. The white right will never be people, because they'll never be human.>your skin color>you not a person>esl shillAccusations are Admissions, 1544049.
