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The Paris stock exchange is significantly declining after a weekend of violence, with concerns over the French national debt and a significant market downturn following riots and looting during the national mobilization for purchasing power. #BourseDeParis #Violences #PouvoirDAchat (translated)

On Sunday in Paris, 350 people were arrested after violent demonstrations and looting, with unrest also occurring in other French cities, while the French Minister of the Interior took responsibility and President Macron asked him to come up with new approaches. #Frankrijk #wapenongeval #protesten (translated)

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu convened a crisis meeting on Monday morning after more than 2,400 arrests during last weekend's riots in the country, during which the Minister of the Interior also offered his resignation following the escalation of violence and looting. #Frankrijk #rellen #crisisoverleg (translated)

We all feel anger and shame. It is unbearable to see the streets of our cities so devastated. With those words, French President Emmanuel Macron condemned the destruction, looting, and confrontations that occurred on Saturday during demonstrations in Paris and many other cities. #Frankrijk #Macron #rellen (translated)

Frank Peeters asked VRT NWS why the broadcaster had spoken about demonstrators, tear gas, and intense protests. He asked whether the editorial team had not seen the footage of looting, destruction, and arson, and suggested that VRT NWS had more sympathy for those involved, whom he spoke of in a derogatory manner, than for the police. #protest #media #veiligheid (translated)

Ann Van Haute wrote that the situation in France was so serious according to her that the government held crisis talks and deployed extra security forces. She criticized the public broadcaster because it, according to her, had portrayed the events as protests in which the police used tear gas again, and depicted looting, arson, and serious riots as a story about harassed demonstrators. She called that journalism funded with tax money. #Frankrijk #Crisis #Journalistiek (translated)

Weird Duk wrote that he had called Owen shortly before. According to Duk, Owen said that he had regularly been involved in riots in Paris, but that the violence and looting he had seen now surpassed everything. According to Owen, no one could intervene for hours. Duk reported that Owen would be a guest that evening on Pauw and De Wit and that colleague Juul Schepens was in Paris or had been there. #Parijs #rellen #geweld (translated)

After violence and looting across France, including Paris, streets have been systematically destroyed and the damage is estimated to be in the tens of millions of euros, while the police made hundreds of arrests and many emergency workers were injured. #Parijs #rellen #vernielingen (translated)