Hundreds of thousands demonstrate: France's day of protest ends in violence and looting
150 injured police officers, 1,200 arrests: French Prime Minister speaks of a "horrific scale of violence". What comes next after the riots?
France's Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu condemned the "appalling scale of violence" after a nationwide protest day against high living costs, which turned violent with 150 police officers injured and around 1,200 people arrested. The protests, which drew 550,000 people, including 110,000 in Paris, according to Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez, or 800,000 participants according to the CGT union, led to widespread vandalism, looting, and arson, with damages estimated in millions.
In Limoges, rioters set fire to the historic town hall, which was largely destroyed, prompting the city's mayor, Guillaume Guérin, to express his outrage. President Emmanuel Macron vowed to take action against those responsible, saying "there is no place for violence in our Republic".
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