More than half a million people joined weekend protests in France that spiraled into riots, looting and arson.
French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said more than 600 police, gendarmes and firefighters were injured as at least 2,400 people were arrested.
President Emmanuel Macron blamed far-left radicals and criminals, while Trump and Vice President JD Vance pointed to mass migration.
Carrefour CEO Alexandre Bompard said about 1,500 shops were hit, with damage in the hundreds of millions of euros.
Right-wing presidential candidate Marine Le Pen is gaining momentum ahead of April’s election as France’s fiscal crisis deepens.
Paris is supposed to be the city of light, but this weekend it was lit mostly by fires, as shattered storefronts, smoldering government buildings and tear gas replaced the café-and-Eiffel-Tower postcard image of France. More than half a million protesters flooded French streets over the weekend, and what began as demonstrations against rising living costs and President Emmanuel Macron’s austerity measures exploded into the worst civil unrest in years.
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