France riots: Macron keeps his interior minister and admits failures

Interior Minister Laurent Nunez offered to resign and said: “On Saturday, in some major cities, you couldn’t look shopkeepers in the eye after hundreds of shops had been looted and tell them we hadn’t lost control.”

— Laurent Nunez, interior minister of France

President Emmanuel Macron declined the resignation to keep the chain of command, and asked Nunez for transparency on the planning and intelligence failures.

Taken into custody over the weekend, more than

2,330 people

More than 2,330 people were taken into police custody over the weekend, 70 per cent of them adults, Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin said.

Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu asked prefects for partial, local curfews from Monday evening, as art students blocked the entrance to the Louvre.

France

Yellow vest organizers called for new protests this Saturday, and unions have announced large protests for Nov 5.