
Rudy Manna, national delegate of Unsa-Police, deplores a level of violence "rarely experienced" and an underestimation of the number of thugs during the mobilizations.
The police were "completely overwhelmed" by a level of violence "rarely experienced" during demonstrations, according to Rudy Manna, national delegate of Unsa-Police, who evokes a "convergence of barbarians".
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Scenes of chaos and looting occurred on the sidelines of social mobilization.
The police were "completely overwhelmed" by a level of violence "rarely experienced", recognizes Sunday October 18 on franceinfo Rudy Manna, national delegate of the Unsa-Police union, after the scenes of chaos and looting that occurred on the sidelines of the social mobilization on Saturday. “We had rarely experienced such violence, with such intensity. We were told about a convergence of struggles and in fact, we had a convergence of barbarians, of delinquents,” says Rudy Manna.
“We didn’t think there were going to be so many of them”
“We have underestimated the number of individuals, thugs, far-left activists and especially the gigantic number of young people from neighborhoods who came to get involved in this heist in the city centers,” he analyzes. The police were completely overwhelmed, “we did not manage to hold the city centers,” recognizes the national delegate of Unsa-Police. He also deplores a lack of ammunition to deal with these actions.
More than 1,800 people were arrested in France the day after urban violence on an unprecedented scale occurred on the sidelines of the demonstrations against the high cost of living on October 17, leading to the fire at the Limoges town hall and major damage.

More than 1,500 traders were affected by the violence on the sidelines of the October 17 demonstrations in France, causing hundreds of millions of euros in damage according to the FCD. Around 1,800 people were arrested and more than 500 members of the police and firefighters were injured.

Nearly a hundred Limougeauds gathered in front of the town hall after a fire ravaged part of the building, visibly in shock.

Around 1,800 people were arrested following violence on the sidelines of demonstrations in France. Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu convened a crisis unit in Matignon, while the IGPN opened an investigation after the injury of a demonstrator in Paris.

The day after a mobilization punctuated by violence in Paris and the region, the Paris prosecutor's office announced 517 people in police custody. More than a thousand arrests took place across the country and at least 150 members of the police were injured.

Multiple shops and stores were looted and vandalized across France on Saturday afternoon during demonstrations against the high cost of living, leading to 1,200 arrests and drawing an indignant reaction from the government and employers' organizations.