
Mayor Johanna Rolland announces support measures after the violence that occurred on Saturday October 17
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Looting took place in Nantes on the sidelines of a demonstration against the high cost of living on October 17. More than 25,000 people were present in the city.
Thirty-eight businesses devastated. In Nantes, as elsewhere in France, a series of lootings took place last weekend in the city center, on the sidelines of the day of mobilization against the high cost of living organized on Saturday October 17.
Overwhelming the police force deployed around the more than 25,000 people who descended on the city of the Dukes, the squall of this “delinquency of opportunity” swept through Place du Commerce, rue Crébillon, rue du Calvaire, ransacking shops and stores. A violence hardly anticipated by professionals, few of whom closed their doors or barricaded themselves ahead of the demonstration. Surprise was added to shock.
From Sunday, the socialist mayor of Nantes, Johanna Rolland, came to the bedside of the victims. Accompanied by several deputies, the elected official noted the damage and announced that she was studying “specific possibilities of support to be put in place”.
On Monday, failing to go to the rally organized in front of the town hall at the call of the Association of Mayors of France (AMF), Johanna Rolland nevertheless preferred to encourage the people of Nantes "to demonstrate their solidarity by going to shopkeepers this afternoon", to respond to their "need for concrete acts and solidarity". A first battery of measures was finally revealed at the end of the day.

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