# France's interior minister resigns over protest chaos

> Laurent Nunez admits police lost control during violent nationwide unrest over education and living costs, but President Macron rejects his resignation.
- Title: France's interior minister resigns over protest chaos · RFI
- Summary: Laurent Nunez admits police lost control during violent nationwide unrest over education and living costs, but President Macron rejects his resignation…
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## Minister admits police lost control
Interior Minister Laurent Nunez acknowledged that security forces lost control in major cities during violent protests on Saturday over education and living costs.
## Nunez resigns, Macron refuses it
Nunez said Monday he resigned because he is responsible for everything that happens. President Emmanuel Macron rejected the resignation and asked him to remain in post.

> I have handed in my resignation because I am responsible for everything that happens
## Scale of Saturday's violence
Nearly twenty-four hundred people were arrested on Saturday. About one thousand police and gendarmes were injured. More than fifteen hundred shops were looted and public buildings torched.
## Justice minister on arrests and prosecution
Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin said twenty-three hundred thirty-one people were taken into police custody over the weekend. More than eighty percent are facing prosecution.
## Businesses count massive damage
More than two thousand businesses are expected to have been affected by the violence, with damage running into hundreds of millions of euros, according to Alain Di Crescenzo, head of the country's network of chambers…
## Key takeaway

France's interior minister Laurent Nunez resigned after acknowledging police failed to anticipate and contain violent protests on Saturday that left nearly twenty-four hundred arrested and over one thousand police injured.