
Plusieurs milliers d'activistes d'ultragauche, rejoints par des casseurs des cités, ont déclenché des violences samedi en France, entraînant près de 2 400 interpellations et environ 1 000 blessés parmi les forces de l'ordre et les sapeurs-pompiers, selon un bilan provisoire, avec de nouveaux heurts signalés dimanche dans la capitale.
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Des violences urbaines ont éclaté samedi en France, impliquant des milliers d'activistes d'ultragauche et des individus décrits comme provenant des cités, entraînant des affrontements avec les forces de l'ordre.
Plusieurs milliers d’activistes d’ultragauche, rejoints en fin de journée par la racaille des cités, ont mis samedi le pays à feu et à sang. Près de 2 400 personnes ont été interpellées et près de 1000 policiers, gendarmes et sapeurs-pompiers ont été blessés. Ce bilan provisoire - de nouveaux heurts ont éclaté dans la capitale dimanche - s’explique par la situation calamiteuse dans laquelle se sont retrouvés policiers et gendarmes.
Un défaut d’anticipation a perturbé les dispositifs de sécurité
AI outlook — possibilities, not facts
De nouveaux heurts pourraient se produire dans les jours à venir si les tensions ne sont pas apaisées
Possible · Within days
Une enquête officielle sera probablement ouverte sur les défaillances anticipées dans les dispositifs de sécurité
Likely · Within weeks

Violence broke out during protests against the high cost of living on October 17 in France, leading to looting and damage in several cities including Paris, Lyon, Marseille and Limoges. Some 800,000 people participated in the parades according to organizations associated with the national mobilization.

Demonstrations against the high cost of living degenerated into violence on October 17 in France, with looting and damage in several cities including Paris, Lyon, Marseille and Limoges, according to witnesses and broadcast images.

On Saturday October 17, around 800,000 people demonstrated in France against the high cost of living, according to organizations associated with the national mobilization. In several cities, demonstrations degenerated into riots, with looting and damage, notably in Paris where dozens of stores were ransacked. In Lens, a high school student lost a hand during the incidents, and his lawyers held a press conference to explain the facts.

Urban violence broke out in several French cities, with overwhelmed law enforcement, looted businesses and a lack of ammunition. In Marseille, 8,000 rioters caused disorder, leaving 60 police officers injured. The unions denounce understaffing and a lack of preparation, while the Minister of the Interior affirms that the system was not undersized.

A 23-year-old soldier was indicted and placed in pre-trial detention for violence and theft in a meeting after attacking the writer Jean-Christophe Rufin in front of his home in Bourges on October 15. The victim, aged 74, was kicked in the head and body, and had his phone stolen. She was granted total incapacity for work for 12 days.

Clashes between young people and police took place in Milan on Sunday for the second day in a row, with violence including bottle throwing, ransacking of stores and the use of tear gas and water cannons by police, following a demonstration against the high cost of living on Saturday; around 70 people have been arrested since Saturday according to Ansa, while Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni called a security meeting for Monday and Mayor Giuseppe Sala expressed his concern about a new and international phenomenon.