French officials are exploring introducing curfews as the country reels from its worst rioting in years after protests over education and the cost of living spiraled into a wave of deadly, country-wide violence that has sparked a blame game at home and threatens to spill over into its European neighbors.
Over the weekend, police fired tear gas into crowds and fought running battles with black-clad, hooded rioters who set fires and broke into shops and government buildings, with images showing historic buildings ablaze.
The mood in the country remained tense on Monday, with Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu asking some cities to impose “partial curfews” to protect people, property and businesses.
CNN’s Melissa Bell reports on the aftermath of the violence and CNN European affairs commentator Dominic Thomas and journalist Cole Stangler discuss the political implications as France moves towards elections next Spring.
0:00 French President Emmanuel Macron speaks after violent riots
1:02 CNN’s Melissa Bell reports on the riots and widespread looting
4:09 Why are protests escalating to violence?
9:16 A look at the damage in Paris
12:52 Journalist on what he saw in Marseille
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The leaders and security personnel has no contingency plan in this kind of chaos. Another, there intelligence is so weak and poor because they dont anticipate this kind of violent acts of the protesters.
In the coming days, at the earliest opportunity, President Trump should evacuate the vital, high-importance bases—where American officers, soldiers, and specialists are stationed—amidst the dangerous unrest in France, leaving France to grapple with its own internal issues. While President Trump speaks about the unrest in France out of kindness and good will, he ought to remain respectfully silent and focus solely on the swift rescue and extraction of American personnel and interests from the country. Then again, Trump knows best. Under his leadership, America has come to realize—in the spirit of Machiavelli—that it should show no regard for any nation other than itself. Thus: America First.❤❤🎉🎉❤🎉🎉😮😮
You can't blame Trump for your issues. French President is clueless! This is not about immigration. This is about corruption in government in collusion with corporations
Macron forgot taking in unlimited "asylum seekers" is the main reason. But then again everything is Trump's fault. Well done CNN in supporting this agenda
Leftist Riots/ Muslim riots! Not protesting.
Riots
CNN = FAKE NEWS
ITS ORGANIZED BY LEFT WING LIBERALS !!! AS USUALL…
Macron thought he understand 🇵🇸‼️
He thought everything can be solved by talk and diplomacy‼️
Sad but this is going to happen all over the world if government keep taxing the sht out of hard working citizens and trying to cut more benefits meanwhile the rich get richer every thing is going up but your paycheck while some people have to decide to buy medicine or food or pay the mortgage or get the car fixed it tough to live and it's only going to get worse people if healthy are working in their late 70s or early 80s and that's insane
They going to fafo France has never been on the bull sht of the rich owning everything and the hard working middle class people starve they have learned nothing from history Marie Antoinette
This is warzone Where the ARMY ?
There are no citizens in France. There are only robbers. Hopeless France.
It started with a protest, but… Why do you always resort to looting and violence? The meaning of the protest is diminished… Merchants are also struggling fellow citizens… I don't understand.
Elon musk paying for this shit
I read that according to the Carnegie Global Tracker for peace– something like that– 57 countries during the last 12 months have undergone riotous anti government protests! I think this sort of thing was mentioned in Matthew 24:3– ! Apparently this is just the beginning of it.!
Wherever Isla/m exists, there are problems; the reason for this lies in the QURA/N and the flawed teachings of ISLA/M.
Wherever Isla/m exists, there are problems; the reason for this lies in the QURA/N and the flawed teachings of ISLA/M.
When you try you're best and you don't succeed… when you get what you want, but not what you need… (coldplay lyrics) — the left, US Dems, libs are all clamouring for anarchy, socialism/communism, free this and that, free low-end healthcare and education… then they get what they deserved because they lack understanding.
Things the lying legacy media has told us and how they will not investigate the truth: MOSTLY PEACEFUL PROTEST, VERY FINE PEOPLE, HUNTER BIDEN LAPTOP, COVID, RUSSIA RUSSIA HOAX, PHOTOSHOPPING OLD PROTESTS/MARCHES INTO NO KINGS RALLIES… there's more. Not sure CNN did all of these but they have colluded with liars and didn't check the truth, at least.
France has everything that the Dems, Libs and DSA want, yet it is still burning. All the "free" stuff you lefties want…
Of course, Macron getting paid by Qatar & blames Trump for everything. Your network is a disgrace
Macron laid the foundation for an Islamic France!
Can we get a 2 term limit installed in Canada?
I'm so tired of living in a communist dictatorship. Liberal Party in for 4 terms with Mark Carney pulling the strings. That guy needs to go. I can't comment on the Canuckistani news channels, so I am commenting on this one, maybe somebody will read this and give a shit.
It’s exactly what happened in India and far worse to come in India and many other nations with zero jobs and high taxes and war expenditure
More protests to come ahead when one nation decides to destroy world’s economy . This protest is against democratically elected jokers who spend tax payers money lavishly and praying citizens without jobs go to heaven including at citizens who have their life’s earning paying taxes to past govt . ZERO ACCOUNTABILITY – failed justice system .
CNN loves this. This is what they want for the USA .
Democrat/liberal behavior 😩
These french people can’t do anything about it
The communists and islamists are only unwitting puppets of the globalists. The cabinets of many governments of Western nations have been infiltrated by the globalists who want to tear down Western nations…… to make them fall, so that they can install a tyrannical world government. Who are the globalists that we speak of? It's the WEF, Clouse Schwab, Soros, the U.N., and Bill Gates. They are beyond evil. Once they are done using the communists and islamists, they will destroy them also……if they can. If you doubt what I say……. Then who funded "Event 201?"
You get what you vote for.
Is Trump, Musk, Putin and Israel behind the looting and funding it?
Pretty ironic that a liberal socialist like macron is calling this far left factions. How do the lefties here in the US justify yet another clearly stated problem based on their own ideologies
How is this a surprise? Many of us saw this coming 20 years ago.
Wait no huge bold headlines of right wing extremism..What happened CNN?
Tourism made up roughly 7–9% of France’s entire economy in 2025. Ten million U.S. travelers were a leading contributor to France’s record tourism boom in 2025 . All gone now. Forever. France has no future..
Reminds of the Jan 16th US Capital insurrectionists who believed they were entitled to the hill. They started these examples. Now felon Trump is the US president and world behaviors are following moronic actions.
The invasions are starting and the Muslims will soon transform the west into a war zone cause submission and violence is key to their belief system
This was organized by Muslim immigrant groups based In Europe most of it organized online. It wasn’t even organized as a protect originally either. CNN either knows that and they want to lie and change the narrative or they havnt done their research and they are just making it up. Which one is it
We had a really wonderful and peaceful protest for women's rights in Poland. And they changed nothing. Maybe violence is the answer. I am just surprised that in this world, more countries are not in flames.
😂😂😂 started in Ukraine
These are exactly the trouble makers—terrorists, not people who are pro-life or concerned about children’s safety. They couldn’t care less about our lives or yours. Paris is rapidly becoming like Lebanon, and it will continue to do so because its president is a puppet who can’t stand up for his citizens. This is a war, and they want to seize control of the Christian government. He must either step up or resign, allowing the correct person to take over France.