Mobilization of October 17: 160 people arrested in Lyon, according to the Rhône prefect who deplores “unbearable” violence.

Shop windows broken, stores looted, cars set on fire, sirens blaring and official buildings attacked. Many streets of large cities offer a landscape of desolation, waking up on Sunday October 18, the day after the great day of mobilization. The prefect of Rhône Etienne Guyot puts forward the figure of 160 arrests in Lyon. In total, 1,200 people were arrested in the country, according to Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu. Follow our live stream.

• At least 150 police officers and gendarmes injured in clashes. “It’s a miracle that the toll is not heavier,” said Sébastien Lecornu. Furthermore, according to the police headquarters, 13 police officers and gendarmes as well as 2 firefighters were injured in the capital.

• “A level of violence that we have never seen,” laments the first deputy mayor of Paris. On franceinfo, Lamia El Araajee spoke of “methodical scenes of looting” which plunged Paris into “total disrepair”.

• Alexis Corbière asks the President of the National Assembly to hold a parliamentary commission of inquiry. "We've been seeing things since last night that we've never seen before, it's unprecedented. Well, at an unprecedented time, an unprecedented measure, reacts the Ecologist and Social MP for Seine-Saint-Denis on franceinfo. All political forces combined, we must be able to hear the actors and understand."

• “The thugs are ruining a movement that is as powerful as it is joyful,” laments Olivier Faure. In an interview with Le Parisien, the boss of the PS deplored the violence which marred the processions on Saturday. The one who lost the Social Democratic primary, however, stressed the need to modify “the doctrine of maintaining order”. “It is de-escalation that must be sought, not confrontation which encourages a game of cat and mouse with thugs who use it to justify their actions,” he underlines.

• The fire at Limoges town hall is "contained", announces the prefect of Haute-Vienne. Guest of LCI, Sunday morning, Maurice Barate declared that the firefighters were "extinguishing the last embers". “It was knowingly that the fire was set,” denounced the State representative, castigating “a wild horde” at the origin of the disaster, which very heavily damaged the 19th century building.