Major protests in France: French shop owners brace for more unrest

Home France To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Cover image: © France 24 02:00 Issued on: 23/10/2026 - 10:46Modified: 23/10/2026 - 10:47 French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday that "illegitimate" protests would be banned in the coming days and blamed "seditious" ultra-left groups and vandals for last weekend's riots and looting. Keywords for this article Video content Video France Video content Video France Video content Video France Video content Video Europe Video content Video France Video content Video France Video content Video France Video content Video France Video content Video France