Western cities brace for unrest as governments warn of foreign exploitation, travel risks and communal tensions amid wave of violent protests
Rioters torched the historic Limoges town hall as Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez admitted authorities had failed to gauge the scale of the unrest and that some cities slipped out of police control.Looting in Nice, France. Some French synagogues cancelled Sabbath prayers and told Jews to hide kippahs as curfews were extended after weekend riots left more than 2,500 people held.Hodei Ciarra Docampo, 34, was arrested after elite RAID officers raided his home in Val d'Issoire, 30 miles north of Limoges, at dawn.Student demonstrators and smoke fill a Paris street as President Emmanuel Macron vows no repeat of the riots, with curfews remaining in force across French cities.
Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has extended localised curfews in Paris, Lyon and other cities, insisting they 'helped to restore calm'. Weekend rioting left some 2,400 people arrested, around 1,000 officers injured and roughly 3,000 businesses looted. Fire gutted Limoges's 19th-century City Hall. President Emmanuel Macron said anyone seeking disorder on Saturday 'will be prevented from doing so'.
Police union Alliance raged after CRS units guarded Brigitte Macron's family macaron shop in Amiens.
Paris's Ohalei Yaakov synagogue was ransacked, its prayer books strewn across the floor.
Paris barman to visiting US reporter: 'So you've come to cover the civil war.'