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Symbolic image: France mobilises 70,000 police and closes the Louvre after last weekend's riots

Symbolic image

France mobilises 70,000 police and closes the Louvre after last weekend's riots

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France is deploying about 70,000 police for Saturday's protests, a week after its worst street violence in years. Italy faces its own unrest over living costs and fuel prices.

Interior minister Laurent Nuñez said on Friday, 23 October, that the deployment includes counter-terrorism units, water cannon, armoured vehicles and drones, plus 10,000 additional police. The government admitted it "lost control" during the rioting of Saturday, 17 October, when looters struck Paris, Marseille and Lyon and rioters set Limoges town hall on fire. FAZ reports that the army will also relieve the police and that more than 3,000 shops were wrecked or looted. The Louvre and other Paris cultural institutions will stay closed on Saturday.

Bans and criticism

Lyon, Grenoble and Nantes banned all demonstrations, while Paris allowed only a union march between Bastille and Nation and refused rallies by the student union UNEF and the gilets jaunes. UNEF says it will go ahead regardless. Macron blamed the "ultra-left" and advised people not to demonstrate, while CGT leader Sophie Binet urged de-escalation and Nathalie Tehio of the Human Rights League warned against a police state.

Unrest in Italy

Protests are planned in Milan, Rome and Turin after riots in Milan last weekend, when police detained more than 271 young people and arrested 32. Meloni's government sent 500 troops and made parents financially liable for damage. In the south, lorry drivers protesting fuel prices for over a week have disrupted supermarket supplies; 71 were reported to judicial authorities and 242 fined, according to The Guardian.