# Out of control? France stunned by October 17 rioting

https://mins.news/en/item/107555

- France 24, 2026-10-20 09:08 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-debate/20261020-out-of-control-france-stunned-by-october-17-rioting

> France did not merely erupt in protests on Saturday; it exploded. Cost-of-living demonstrations drew two and a half times the crowd police had expected, overwhelming officers. Police also faced determined flash mobs, including radical militants intent on fighting and others who came to loot. Attacks on symbols of the Republic, including Limoges’s 19th-century city hall, were watched around the world.

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