France’s government imposed 8‑pm to 6‑am curfews in Lille, Paris, and two other northern cities on Monday after demonstrators jammed the Louvre’s entrance, causing widespread looting and clashes with police.NEARPARA The curfew, slated for Monday and Tuesday, will keep shops and streets closed overnight to safeguard businesses while police patrols intensify. PM Sebastien Lecornu said he was “absolutely determined to restore public order.”
Interior Minister Laurent Nunez offered his resignation following the weekend’s violence, but President Emmanuel Macron declined to accept it. Nunez blamed the “out‑of‑balance” measures for failing to keep the rioters at bay.
The government deployed roughly 60,000 officers over the weekend, took 2,330 people into custody—70 % adults—and saw damage to about 3,000 shops, costing hundreds of millions of euros, according to Small Business Minister Serge Papin.
Digital Minister Anne Le Henanff urged online resale platforms to pull listings of stolen goods, summoning representatives from Vinted, eBay, Amazon, Leboncoin, Meta, and TikTok to a meeting.
The European Union condemned the violence but warned that the right to peaceful protest must be protected, while Germany’s travel advisory flagged the possibility of further outbreaks. Organisers plan another protest for Saturday, and the government is weighing a state of emergency.