10/18/26
“These attacks are being done by far-left radicals as the article notes. With far-left radicals becoming more prominent in the Dem party could what is happening in France be a preview of what might happen here sometime in the future?” Admin
Rioters stormed city halls in Marseille and Lille, set Lyon’s tourist office ablaze, looted Paris stores as 550,000 people marched and police made 400 arrests.
Stones and fireworks were already flying across Place de la République before Saturday’s demonstration against rising costs had even started. By 1 p.m., hundreds of black-clad militants, many of them with their faces hidden behind masks, were facing off with riot police in the square. It was the start of an afternoon of violence that spread across the capital.
Protesters hurled rocks and fireworks at the police, who fired back with tear gas and water cannons. Shortly after 2 p.m., a car went up in flames in the middle of the square. Bicycles, street furniture and a newspaper kiosk were torched as well, and looters forced their way into a nearby Monoprix supermarket and ransacked it.
Hundreds of demonstrators chanted “Everyone hates the police,” “Revolution,” and “We are all antifascists.” Another chant took aim at the president himself: “Louis XVI: We beheaded him. Macron: We can do it again!”
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