Curfews bring calm to French cities overnight but France braces for a second weekend of riots on Saturday
Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said 'targeted curfews have contributed to the calm' and promised more tonight wherever needed. Emmanuel Macron is on a three-day Gulf trip, and his opponents have branded him 'pathetic'. Around 2,500 people were arrested after weekend riots that burned Limoges town hall. Up to 5,000 riot police will ring Parc des Princes for tonight's PSG-Barcelona tie.
Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez admitted police 'lost control' and offered to resign.
In Marseille, 118 officers were injured, and a quarter of the 101 people arrested are children.
A British tourist's calf was torn off by a projectile during clashes in Toulouse.
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