Brief Published (Dubai time, UTC+4) · event date: 2026-10-17
On Saturday in Paris, law enforcement arrested 855 individuals during protests, a figure described as a “record” by the police prefecture, which announced this on Sunday morning.
In the capital, authorities confronted violent groups of an unusual scale, leading to an unprecedented number of arrests. Thirteen police officers and gendarmes, as well as two firefighters, were injured during the events.
Furthermore, the assessment of damage and looting of businesses is still ongoing, but the prefecture emphasizes that the extent of the observed damage is significant.
