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Summary The funeral of a 17-year-old boy killed by a police officer on Tuesday has been taking place in the Paris suburb of Nanterre There are reports of large crowds at the funeral, but the family have asked the media to stay away French President Emmanuel Macron has cancelled his scheduled visit to Germany as a result of the unrest The mayor of Lyon has called for extra police reinforcements for tonight and authorities in Marseille have cancelled the city’s Pride festival Overnight, 1,300 people were arrested across France in a fourth night of rioting which saw widespread vandalism and...

Over 1,000 law enforcement officers and firefighters have been left injured while combatting rioting in France, the country’s interior minister claimed Saturday. Gérald Darmanin, the Minister for the Interior for Emmanuel Macron’s government in France, outlined the damage caused by ongoing civil unrest plaguing the country. The senior official also lashed out at the French far-left and its leader, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, openly blaming them for the violent disorder originally prompted by pension reforms implemented by the Macron government. Speaking to Le Journal du Dimanche, Darmanin expressed fury at the “extreme left” in the country, saying their violence had resulted in...

The government felt good about the pictures coming from the media in Paris where the yellow vests were much less numerous this week. 168 arrests were made in Paris. It had been suggested that protesting in Paris "was a trap" before December 8th's massive police operation there against protesters. While today's protest brought some to Paris with the estimate of some 1-thousand, others protested in other locations like Bordeaux where 4,500 protesters gathered and 27 were arrested and 22 injured. At Saint-Etienne 1,500 protesters with 52 arrests reported. In Nantes, 1,200 protesters were reported. 16 arrests there with six injuries....

French President Emmanuel Macron was not only present at the Élysée Palace during “Act IV” of the Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vests) protests but had a helicopter on standby to escape in case protesters broke in, according to reports. The French leader fortified the Élysée Palace last Saturday with an unprecedented amount of security, including 500 republican guards, around a hundred police and gendarmes armed with water cannons, and other anti-riot measures, Le Dauphine reports. Should the protesters have managed to storm the Élysée and get past security, President Macron is also said to have had a helicopter on standby to...

ARMOURED vehicles bearing the European Union flag have stormed into Paris as protesters bring the city to a standstill.

The number of arrests yesterday in France was raised even higher today to nearly 2,000. 1,939 is the latest number from the government, which also says that 136,000 people participated in the protests yesterday. Lawyers groups denounced the arbitrary nature of arrests, many of which were described as preventive by the authorities. People were arrested because they looked dangerous or were carrying items considered dangerous. 500 people were reported to still be in custody as of Sunday evening.....

BREAKING: WATCH: Paris: A group of French police officers remove their helmets to show solidarity with the French people against President Emmanuel Macron, as anti Macron protests continue throughout France.

PARIS (AFP) – Faced with violent anti-government protests in Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday will announce new measures in an attempt to rally support for “environment-friendly” tax increases. Paris was counting the cost of clashes between police and demonstrators Sunday on the Champs-Elysees where barricades were set on fire, luxury shop windows smashed, and traffic lights uprooted. Some 30 people were injured and 101 arrested, police said. The government blamed much of the violence on a small minority of “ultra-right” activists who infiltrated some 8,000 demonstrators wearing the yellow, high-visibility vests that symbolise their week-long protests against hikes...

French police were pelted with Molotov cocktails and fireworks as hundreds of anti-Marine Le Pen activists hijacked the annual May Day march on Monday. Officers were pictured on fire while demonstrators were hit with tear gas and charged with batons as scenes turned ugly ahead of a speech by Le Pen and her presidential opponent Emmanuel Macron. Meanwhile dozens of anti-Erdogan marchers were detained in Turkey after they tried to walk to Taksim Square, an iconic protest space that had been declared off-limits by police. Ugly clashes between protesters and police were also photographed in the US, Italy, Indonesia and...

French farmers are still not happy even though French president Francois Hollande decided to roll back the "ecotax" on large trucks following riots last week. Riots continued on Saturday, after the announced rollback. For the prelude to this story please see my Thursday, October 31, post, Hollande's Tax Everything Plan Blows Sky High With Riots by Farmers. French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault on Tuesday indefinitely suspended the introduction of a green tax on trucks following riots at the weekend in the Brittany region. The move comes three days after a protest by hundreds of food producers, artisans and distributors in...

I thought my fellow freepers would like this. I was just on another forum where a guy in france posted some screengrabs from CNN. I'll attach his comments.Originally posted by altamaros:Apparently, alarmed by the riots, we have decided to move our towns. Apparently Paris moved 150 km east. Lyon moves form its previous situation aside the alps to south of Massif Central Toulouse decided that being on the Altantic shore was no good (too close to the USA, i guess) and move east to become a italian alpine city. The mayor of Stasbourg was more careful. he chose his town...

CNN's Carol Lin and the French "African-Americans" The Paris riots have highlighted more than any other issue in recent years not only the bias, but the ignorance of the "old media." Internet readers have studied the situation in Europe for years. Numerous writers, from Mark Steyn to Ba'at Yeor to Debbie Schlussel, have long predicted the decline of Europe and the jihad that we have seen over the past few weeks. But the "old media" personalities still have no clue as to what is going on. And their reporting and commentary has taken on an almost comical quality as a...

THE French have had enough of the riots that are sullying their international reputation as the land of civility, as well as liberty, equality and fraternity. By the end of last week, there was a collective sense of relief as the nightly toll of burnt cars, and torched schools, nurseries, gyms, warehouses and small businesses rapidly diminished. A few hundred - as opposed to well over a thousand - incinerated cars and a significant drop in violence in the troubled suburbs of Paris signalled for most French citizens a welcome break from the fortnight of violence that had threatened the...

FRANCE yesterday ordered a ban on public meetings likely to provoke disturbances as thousands of police were deployed on the streets of Paris to stop youths turning the tourist centre into a battlefield. The initiative came as speculation mounted over a severely discredited Jacques Chirac’s ability to endure the last 17 months of his presidential term. Ringleaders of the riots that have shaken France for the past two weeks were suspected of planning to set ablaze the affluent Champs Elysées. Through text and internet messages they were encouraging followers armed with Molotov cocktails to converge on the tree-lined tourist haunt...

Tuesday, November 08, 2005 Les émeutiers prennent à une église posted by Joe N. @ 3:16 PM An eyewitness report which appears to be corroborated by commenters from the same town: Afro-Moslems rioters attack a Protestant church. «Tonight the Protestant church in Meulan was attacked. The roof is completely destroyed. I do not yet know if the interior is completely destroyed or not. You can’t smoke in a mosque, but trashing a church is less serious.» | Ça caillasse et ça casse posted by U*2 @ 2:49 PM French radio reports a direct confrontation with riot police in Toulouse charging into a group of 50 rioters...

As the riots continue into the 12th day, the French Government has issued their sternest warning yet, indicating that an increase of only 75% of government benefits will be issued to rioters instead of the 90% previously discussed. Jacque Chirac, the current Fiddler of France, contacted influential Imams around the new Republik of Francelamistan and indicated that he is getting really, really mad and will take the additional drastic step of holding his breath till he turns blue if the riots don't stop. The most influential Imam, Izza Tell Inu Togiveup, agreed to issue a fatwa for the riots to...

In a stunning turn of events, the French Government today promised to put all the rioters on Double Secret Probation if they don't cease and desist their actions immediately. Jacque Chirac, contacted at his underground bunker somewhere on the outskirts of Paris said he's taking this drastic action because of the refusal of the rioters to stop burning stuff even though the government has told them they'll jump up and down and hold their breath if they don't. This reporter (ahem) contacted members of Delta House regarding this escalation of threats by the French and responded that this is no...

PARIS (AP) -- France will impose curfews "wherever it is necessary" and call up 1,500 police reservists to stop rioting, the prime minister said Monday, as civil unrest erupted for a 12th night with youths setting fire to an empty bus and attacking police in Toulouse. The announcement came as similar violence was reported in neighboring Belgium and Germany and the French government faced growing criticism for its inability to stop the violence in its tough suburbs. Governments worldwide urged their citizens to be careful in France. A 61-year-old man also died Monday of wounds sustained in an attack as...

In spite of the calls for calm, violence continues (With AFP.) [ November 06, 2005 ] The destruction created by the riots in the French suburbs has grown louder and louder for 10 days and reached the peak of 1295 vehicles burned and 312 people arrested in the night of Saturday to Sunday, according to the final assessment of the general direction of the national police force. The day before, the final assessment of the disorders made account of 897 burnt vehicles. The calls for calm however had multiplied Saturday. One of them emanated from the parents of the two...

AULNAY-SOUS-BOIS, France (Reuters) - With every night that France's rundown suburbs burn, officials grow increasingly convinced that drug traffickers and Islamist militants are using frustrated youths to challenge law and order here. ADVERTISEMENT Many people who watch their cars, shops and schools go up in flames, however, are not buying it. They blame unemployment, racial prejudice and widespread youth boredom for the outbursts. Finding "hidden hands" behind the unrest seems like trying to catch the rioters as they rampage through the night. Some may get caught, but far more slip away in the darkness. "Everybody is fed up seeing our...