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Monday briefing: What you need to know about a weekend of ‘chaos’ in France

Monday briefing: What you need to know about a weekend of ‘chaos’ in France

Feed excerpt — reported by The Guardian

In today’s newsletter: Violent riots and looting have dominated the headlines, but the unrest gripping the country and beyond reflects deeper public anger over everyday issuesGood morning. I bet your weekend was better than Emmanuel Macron’s. On Friday, the evening before mass protests that were planned across France, he attended a Céline Dion concert in Paris with his wife, Brigitte, prompting comparisons to Louis XIV and Marie Antoinette. On Sunday evening, he was forced to give a televised speech condemning the “unbridled violence” and riots that erupted in French cities over the weekend.The rioters that burned makeshift barricades of bicycles…

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