France's Macron to Meet with Cabinet to Address Weekend Violence and Looting

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France's Macron to Meet with Cabinet to Address Weekend Violence and Looting
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France's Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu is holding a crisis meeting to assess the weekend's violence and looting, which left 1,500 shops destroyed and 1,000 police officers injured. President Macron has asked Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez to examine how to make France's streets safer and to bring the perpetrators to justice. Macron's televised address on Sunday called for national unity, but critics say it lacked concrete detail on how to address the issues.

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Published Monday, October 19, 2026

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