
The violence of Saturday October 17 in France provoked strong reactions abroad, between accusations from the American vice-president and analyzes from the European press.
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Violence and riots occurred in France on Saturday October 17, causing property damage and international media attention.
The violence that occurred on Saturday October 17 provoked numerous reactions around the world.
The American vice-president holds immigration responsible for this violence. On X, JD. Vance posts a video of Limoges town hall ravaged by flames with this comment: "Western progressives imported the third world to France in the name of diversity and compassion."
“The anger of youth and the yellow vests set France on fire,” headlines the Spanish newspaper El País, which chose a photo of a hooded young man giving the finger in front of a burned car on Place de la République. “The second term of the president, disconnected from society, still has six long months ahead of him, during which the country must find answers to the irresistible rise of the extreme right,” writes the El País correspondent in Paris.
The German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine, for its part, soberly mentions serious riots, but warns in an editorial: "Anger has become the default emotional state of our society."

The Riyadh-led coalition announced the death of two Saudi officers in a helicopter crash near the Yemeni border, following a technical failure. This event comes as the Houthis increase drone and missile attacks against Saudi Arabia.

Iran has appointed Mehrdad Akhlaghi as defense minister. This former leader of defense industries, targeted by UN sanctions since 2007, succeeds General Aziz Nassirzadeh, killed in February during an Israeli-American attack.

Israeli settlers attacked a convoy of European diplomats in the West Bank on October 17, beating French mayor Bernard Baudoux during a solidarity action for the olive harvest.

German justice is investigating two men aged 105 and 101, suspected of having been guards in Nazi prisoner of war camps, respectively at Stalag 326 in Senne and Stalag VI A in Hemer, between 1943 and 1944.
At least 19 people died and around 20 were injured in a stampede at a Hindu religious gathering in Calcutta, India, after sudden rain.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Saturday defended Donald Trump's decision to exempt Russia from new sanctions, presenting it as a 60-day pause to analyze their economic effects, a measure strongly criticized by Ukraine which aggravates tensions between kyiv and Washington.