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Marc Vanguard published a first provisional report on the riots and looting of October 17. He estimated that in just a few hours, France experienced the equivalent of several days of riots. He reported 1,800 arrests, including 855 in Paris, and stated that the previous record was 1,700 during the fourth act of the Yellow Vests. He also reported that more than 500 police officers, gendarmes, and firefighters were injured, a toll he presented as provisional and likely unprecedented. In comparison, he wrote, 800 police officers were injured during the riots related to Nahel, but over a period of eight days. According to his report, 1,500 businesses were attacked, looted, or destroyed. He called this figure a record, comparing it to the approximately 200 businesses targeted during the worst day of the Yellow Vests and the thousand recorded during the riots related to Nahel, again over eight days. Marc Vanguard also reported at least seven attacked town halls in Limoges, Marseille, Lille, Angers, Nantes, Caen, and Grenoble. He stated that no major historical public building was destroyed in May 1968 and mentioned the partial burning of the ground floor of the Paris Stock Exchange. Citing the Federation of Trade and Distribution, he estimated the damages at several hundred thousand euros. He finally noted that one-third of the people arrested in Paris were minors and specified that he would follow updates on this provisional report. #Émeutes #France #Actualités (translated)

FC Barcelona Argentina wrote that Barça had won 5-2 in a chaotic match and described the victory as overwhelming. It also praised the performance of Lamine Yamal and harshly criticized Koundé, whose performance it deemed useless. It pointed out that the team had accumulated 27 out of 27 points in an ideal start and mentioned PSG and Real Madrid as their next rivals, expressing concern about them. https://t.co/mAgcdXs0Nd #Barça #Fútbol #LaLiga (translated)

A 16-year-old teenager was arrested in Caen for glorifying terrorism after posting videos on Snapchat where he appears wearing shirts bearing the names of Merah, Bin Laden, and Hitler in front of high schools, which led to a criminal investigation. #apologieDuTerrorisme #Caen #Snapchat (translated)

MartaRS said she had thought about keeping silent for the good of everyone, but she stated that none of what Alba had said was true. She added that she understood her colleagues would speak up and expressed that she felt very sad and disappointed. #Verdad #Mentiras #Decepción (translated)

Javier A. said that very few times, perhaps never, had he experienced an atmosphere at home like the one the previous night. He emphasized that neither the players nor the fans were discouraged after receiving blows and pointed out that, in other years, the match would have ended 1-4. He described the team as "fucking tough." #Fútbol #PasiónDeportivo #EquipoFuerte (translated)

Fran questioned why it was only then that some realized River would not play in the next Libertadores. He argued that they should have demanded accountability from the supporters who had asked for more time for Coudet after the team conceded three goals to Aldosivi. He also asserted that River had been out since that moment and that those who claimed to defend the club had concealed what had happened. #RiverPlate #Libertadores #FútbolArgentino (translated)

Gustavo Petro stated that the names of supposed armed leaders reported by the press were a deception and affirmed that the main drug trafficking kingpins did not live in Colombia. He said that when he received coordinates for bombings, he also requested the location of minors to prevent them from dying and to ensure that they were detained and handed over to ICBF. Petro claimed that he ordered 25 bombings and that none of them targeted a leader. According to his writings, in some operations, they found glasses and backpacks, and were told that the targets had escaped 25 seconds before the attack. He added that announcing operations in advance facilitated those escapes. The president said he initially suspected that SECOES was infiltrated by drug trafficking, based on reports from intelligence agents on the ground. Later, he claimed, he came to believe — though he said it needed to be verified — that a person paid by the same foreign agencies providing information to the Army was warning armed leaders a minute before the bombings. Petro maintained that the president was deceived by attributing the identities of leaders to the dead, even if they might be minors or civilians, which discredited him. He concluded that this increased violence and drug trafficking. https://t.co/bhFEbMDEky #Narcotráfico #Colombia #Violencia (translated)

Gustavo Petro said that he considered the press reports that presented little-known individuals as leaders to be misleading. He claimed that the president was being informed of the capture of armed leaders and important drug traffickers, but that these individuals were not apprehended and that the most significant kingpins did not live in Colombia. According to Petro, he was given coordinates of armed leaders and he requested the location of minors to prevent them from dying and to ensure that they were detained and handed over to the ICBF. He said that in those operations, the leader usually escaped and a minor could die in a bombing. He added that the strategy was even more harmful when the president announced an operation before carrying it out. Petro recounted that at first he believed that SECOES was infiltrated by drug trafficking, as agents on the ground had pointed out to him. Later, he said, he came to consider—although he still had to verify it—that a person paid by the same foreign agencies that provided information to the Army was warning the armed leader a minute before the bombing. He also argued that the president was being misled by attributing invented names of leaders to the dead, even if they could be minors or civilians, and that this was how violence and drug trafficking grew. https://t.co/bhFEbMDEky #Narcotráfico #Colombia #Violencia (translated)

E wrote that the university in Caen had been extensively vandalized and that technical equipment had been destroyed. According to E, among other things, "ACAB" had been spray-painted on the walls. E urged Swedish media to pay attention to the incident. #vandalism #universitet #media (translated)

Liliana Priestly stated that those people were disliked because, when they did the same thing, they were not accused in the same way as others. She accompanied the message with the tags #FraudOnTheFarm and #FarmBetrayal. #FraudeEnLaGranja #LaGranjaTraición #Fraude #Injusticia #LaGranja (translated)