Yesterday several cities and urban areas throughout France began using curfews in an attempt to stop the riots and looting that have erupted throughout the country. Today, they announce the military will be mobilized to support police efforts.
FRANCE – France is set to deploy the military to the streets to maintain order as protests in the country escalate.
The Sentinelle force, created in 2015 after a wave of terrorist attacks in Paris, will be used “mainly on static security missions.”
French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez told lawmakers that the deployment can free up police officers and gendarmes to carry out law enforcement operations.
Elsewhere, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said the government will carry out a “massive” security operation next weekend to prevent new incidents. He also claimed that there will be new curfews “where the situation requires it.”
The decision led to reduced chaos on Monday night, according to Lecornu. Some areas, including Les Halles and parts of central Lyon saw a curfew last night. Lille and Nice imposed curfews for minors.
[…] According to the French Ministry of Interior, over half a million joined the demonstrations on Saturday. Lecornu said 1,200 people had been arrested and 150 police officers had been injured.
In some areas, protests descended into looting and rioting. Shops were looted in Paris, Marseille, Nice, Nantes, Bordeaux, Limoges, Lille, Toulouse and Strasbourg, the French news agency AFP reported. (read more)
Saints fans Paris: Louvre is closed. Curfews in effect. Game day: stay close to the Stadium, go directly from the train station to the stadium then back to the train station-do NOT wander into the neighborhood.
Central Paris: Notre Dame and the Eiffel Tower are open, however… pic.twitter.com/n5wLBRtbJI— Kristine Froeba (@Kristine_Froeba) October 20, 2026
ITALY 🇮🇹 Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced new measures, effective immediately: Participation in a violent demonstration of at least five people can result in a prison sentence of 5 years with a maximum fine of €20,000.
Such demonstrations would include throwing stones,… pic.twitter.com/QGmitrJI7S
— Toria Brooke (@realtoriabrooke) October 20, 2026
El dueño de una tienda de anime en Francia compartió el video de seguridad que muestra cómo saquearon su negocio de 29 años durante las recientes protestas en París.
El comerciante explicó que no pudo hacer nada para detenerlos porque eran demasiados, lamentando que el trabajo…
— AnimeTrends (@animetrends) October 20, 2026
🚨BREAKING: French police are receiving massive public support for cornering a group of far-left looters and doing what their parents should be doing to them
Bravo. 🇫🇷👏 pic.twitter.com/osnSDWvh9D
— Inevitable West (@Inevitablewest) October 19, 2026
France …waited long enough to get control.
Days late … finally the police.
Probably taking action because they realize it’s helping MAGA midterms.
I didn’t see the words “shoot to kill” anywhere in the article, so nothing will be substantially fixed here.
You loot, we shoot might also get their attention. Inspector Clouseau needs to start watching La French EBay.
They do work those billy clubs, at least they have those.
Open up a can of whoop a**!
So strange you’ll never see those animal invaders pulling any of their bs in rural areas of the US on their last day
Well, it’s hard to wave a white flag and shoot a gun at the same time!
Announce warnings nobody can miss. Then whoever remains on the street doing bad things – shoot to kill.
Troops with automatic weapons on the ground and a bunch of snipers.
Problem solved in less than one hour.
Nudge things like mass immigration flooding and racial animus for years.
Congratulate yourself on resulting strife and riots, the planned outcomes.
Next step: Crack down with the military, also planned from the beginning to put fear into the populace so they will be controllable.
Behave like a mad dog, get put down like a mad dog. No apologies.
There will probably be so many restrictions on the military that they will mostly just be in the way. But the lame French government will be seen to be doing something.
The French Military has a long history of being a mere speed bump.
Only a few years ago those police would have been vilified by the press, with government resignations offered. Things are changing in Europe far faster than most expected, accelerated by these recent scenes of tribal violence. If their ‘protests about schools’ continues then pretty soon those batons are going to be hitting skulls, not the backs of the thighs.
Smoking cigarettes is bad for your health and for everybody’s health around you.
Unless you’re playing solitaire till dawn with a deck of fifty one.
Don’t forget to watch Captain Kangaroo…..too!
Ha! Good one !
How about this—Use the military to kill the murderous invaders and to prevent another invasion.
Days of feigned police impotence to necessitate movement toward Marshal (Pétain) Law?
(IYKYK)
Coming soon to DFW, Arlington, McKinney, Frisco, Harris County Texas. I say this as a frustrated Texan.
So, IOW, if you’re a normal real French citizen, and you’re out past curfew- straight to jail or a cracked skull.
The invaders will still be given space.
LOL.. The French Military. At least nobody will be shot, including the rioter however.
They can track the money and organizers but they won’t
There were reports by the police that some rioters were carrying AK-47’s. Sorry, but if you show up to a protest carrying a machine gun, you instantly get categorized as an armed insurgent and shoot to kill should be applicable.
The French are known to be staunch conservatives of water resources when it comes to personal hygiene so I can only imagine the stench down there. Perhaps the profligate use of fire hoses in this case would be dually effective since none of the French have any firearms.
Following historic building being burnt down and Jewish biz’s burnt to the ground; high-end stores looted and merchandise being resold on the streets.
Yet, we see, NO brown people stores were affected…..so, isn’t that amazing or it was mapped and routed out by WHOM????????
Bullets needed to fly on Sunday!!! Bullets that killed…….yes, I said, killed.
I remember reading about rioting Islamists tearing up France daily 20 years ago.
And they just kept importing more.
They blamed it on school access then, too.
But we all know the truth.
How’s that working out?
Liberals have blurred the lines between protesting and rioting.
Why no water cannons on the filth that slimes the streets of Paris?
Macron is weak. With luck somewhere in the French army is someone ambitious enough to use a whiff of grapeshot.
France has never been all that politically stable. In the past 250 years they’ve had five republics, two empires and a Nazi puppet state. It’s not hard to imagine a military coup against Macron.
Retired Magistrate here: Will they be handing out snacks to the rioters?
French leadership lets thugs into their country, turns the country into a police state because the thugs start acting like thugs, all while blaming it on their own citizens? This is the predictable outcome of socialist rule.
They can guard the ashes!
It’s going to take bullets not batons. Macron might consider reinstating the guillotine.
Bon chance, Paris, Marseille, Nice, Nantes, Bordeaux, Limoges, Lille, Toulouse and Strasbourg….
I worked with US forces who had to work closely with French military forces in Afghanistan, and honestly, from t he reports I got, the French some of the most reliable and competent soldiers that our own forces could rely on to have their backs. (At the time, the Brits were the best. The Germans were useless, as they had to call Berlin to get permission to shoot hostile forces. The stories I could tell….)
Yeah, I know–kind of surprising, as I had previously painted all French military with same broad stereotype: good for appeasement, retreat, and/or surrender. I don’t default to this any more…..