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Mayhem in Europe as streets ablaze in France and luxury stores looted
Riots spread to Milan for second night as Macron calls for calm amid European chaos.
In brief
Riots spread to Milan for second night as Macron calls for calm amid European chaos. European riots spread to Milan for second night with luxury stores looted and Macron urging calm. Originally reported by Dailymail.
Violence spreads across Europe
Violence in France has spread across Europe after Milan was plunged into chaos with rioting and looting last night.
Macron vows accountability
President Emmanuel Macron vowed to hold to account those who 'sought to bring down the Republic' following a weekend of disorder involving half a million protesters.
Riots reach Italy
But the trouble reached Italy on Sunday where rioters were seen hurling bottles, ransacking stores and destroying property.
Meloni calls for security meeting
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni called for an urgent security meeting to address the violence, which resembled scenes of chaos and looting in Paris.
Trump blames immigration
US President Donald Trump had hours earlier blamed immigration for the disorder in France that saw a historic town hall torched, businesses ransacked and hundreds injured.
Trump's social media statement
Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform: 'France is burning!The immigration of people from an entirely different world, people with hatred in their hearts, has shattered that once great country.
Left-wing agitators blamed
Kirill Dmitriev, a liaison between Vladimir Putin and Washington, said: 'Left-wing globalists are sowing migration-driven chaos.'
Protests started by teachers
Demonstrations were started by teachers and students a month ago in response to staff shortages and have grown into a wider movement against rising prices.
Looting luxury stores
Scenes from the weekend showed looters in France smashing their way into designer stores to steal luxury items amid the 'unrestrained violence'.
Macron blames agitators
President Macron blamed 'agitators from far-Left fringe groups, joined by numerous criminals' for plunging his country into 'unbridled violence'.
Arrests and injuries
He made a plea 'for unity' following the weekend of chaos, which saw nearly 2,400 people arrested and almost 1,000 police and gendarmes injured, seven seriously.
Riots in Milan
Clashes in Milan began on Saturday on the sidelines of a sanctioned cost-of-living demonstration. Similar troubles took place in the northern cities of Bologna and Turin following other protests.
Police response in Milan
Police carried out numerous detentions and arrests as protesters, including many young demonstrators, fled from law enforcement during urban unrest following demonstrations in Milan.
Milan mayor's statement
The mayor of Milan, Giuseppe Sala, said he had witnessed 'smashed shop windows, looted stores, and frightened citizens'.
Meloni condemns vandals
Prime Minister Meloni on Saturday called the vandals 'thugs who exploit demonstrations to spread chaos, attack those who guarantee security, and hold entire cities hostage'.
Meloni's X statement
She wrote on X: 'To demonstrate is a right. To lay our cities to waste is not'.
What to remember
European riots spread to Milan for second night with luxury stores looted and Macron urging calm.
