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Limoges city hall the day after it was set on fire during the October 2026 unrest
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The Weekend France’s Anger Caught Fire

A month of school protests over missing teachers met a country squeezed by prices, and on Saturday 17 October France had its worst unrest in years — a town hall burned, thousands of shops looted, some 2,400 people arrested. The government now has to calm the streets with an empty treasury.

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