# 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.
- Title: Mayhem in Europe as streets ablaze in France and luxury…
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- Published: 2026-10-19T00:37:53+00:00
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- Topics: france, milan, macron, riots, luxury stores, looting, europe, police, protesters, cost of living, news, entertainment
## 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'.
## Key takeaway

European riots spread to Milan for second night with luxury stores looted and Macron urging calm.