# ‘We tore it up’: French looters boast online as minister admits police ‘lost control’

https://mins.news/en/item/106011

- euronews, 2026-10-19 09:53 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.euronews.com/2026/10/19/we-tore-it-up-french-looters-brag-online-as-minister-admits-police-lost-control

> More than 2,000 shops were targeted in France, with damage estimated at hundreds of millions of euros. The government faces questions over failing to anticipate the violence, while a minister acknowledged that police lost control and looters boasted online.

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