October 17 Cost-of-Living Protests in France Overwhelm Police and Target Civic Symbols
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On 17 October, French cost-of-living demonstrations drew two and a half times the crowd police expected. Flash mobs of militants and looters overwhelmed officers and attacked symbols of the Republic, including the 19th-century city hall in Limoges. Six months before a presidential election where the extreme right and left lead polls, anger over the riots joins wider inequality concerns; President Emmanuel Macron’s minority lame-duck government faces pressure to restore trust in leadership, police, and democracy with little money in state coffers.
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