“I got it for 1000 euros”: in Bordeaux, the demonstrations of October 17 quickly turned into looting and ransacking

Barely started, the Bordeaux mobilization which was to take place at 2 p.m. on the Place de la Bourse degenerated into clashes between thugs and the police. The demonstrators numbered 7,000 according to the Gironde prefecture, but the estimate seems low. Half an hour after the rally began, fires broke out on piles of barricades and in flower beds. The Place de la Bourse was then evacuated manu militari to allow the intervention of the firefighters, revealing the first damages committed on the windows of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) and the facade of the National Customs Museum.

Tensions then intensified along…