Shocking photos showed the extent of the damage in Paris, France on Sunday as rioters ignored President Emmanuel Macron's calls for peace and continued their path of destruction through the city.
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Images showed garbage strewn across the streets as fires continued to rage overnight following yet another day of violent protests, which saw more than half a million people take to the streets.
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At least one vehicle was left completely burnt-out, while footage shared on social media appeared to show masked rioters breaking into people’s homes as others looted local businesses.
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Some shop owners have since opted to hire security guards in a desperate effort to keep their stores safe.
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Amid the chaos, French President vowed on Sunday to hold to account those who 'sought to bring down the Republic.'
But the trouble has already reached Italy, where rioters were seen hurling bottles, ransacking stores and destroying property.
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Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has since called for an urgent security meeting to address the violence, which resembled scenes of chaos and looting in Paris.
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Meanwhile in the United States, officials have denounced what they see as a 'campaign to destroy Western civilization.'
A French firefighter was seen responding to a street barricade in Paris, France amid violent protests on Sunday
Masked protesters were seen breaking into local businesses on Sunday night
In a post on his Truth Social platform, President Donald Trump blamed immigrants for the riots as he declared: 'France is burning!'
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In a post on his Truth Social platform, President Donald Trump blamed immigrants for the riots as he declared: 'France is burning!'
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'The immigration of people from an entirely different world, people with hatred in their hearts, has shattered that once great country,' he posted on Sunday morning.
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'Close your Borders and take control, before it is too late!'
Hours later, US Undersecretary of State Jacob Helberg said the riots are a 'resurgence of FAR-LEFT POLITICAL TERRORISM.'
'Secretary[of State Marco] Rubio presciently hosted a ministerial on this because this threat is transnational and organized in networks that cross borders, share resources, and coordinate violence,' he posted on X.
'Those who excuse, normalize and legitimize it deserve unequivocal condemnation.
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If you claim to stand for working people, STOP MAKING EXCUSES FOR THOSE WHO DESTROY EVERYTHING WORKING PEOPLE HAVE BUILT,' he continued.
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'Unlike their apologists, we believe destruction and chaos are NOT legitimate forms of political expression.
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And a campaign to destroy Western civilization is NOT a protest against the price of groceries.
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Every business burned is someone's life's work destroyed.
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Every neighborhood terrorized is a community robbed of peace,' he continued.
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'Under President Trump and Secretary Rubio, we will never surrender American communities to organized political terror.
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We will dismantle terrorist networks that threaten our people, disrupt their financing, and bring their perpetrators to justice.'
'Our streets belong to our citizens.
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Our future belongs to our children.
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And this country belongs to the people who built it—not transnational mobs that seek to burn it down.
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A Parisian man is seen trying to extinguish a fire during clashes between protesters and police officers in the city
Photos from the city showed garbage strewn across the streets as fires continued to ravage overnight
The word 'Antifa,' which stands for 'anti-fascist,' was spray painted on top of a Paris map
But Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna, of California, shared his support for the protesters as he called for a new 'New Deal.'
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From the high schools of France to the streets of Madrid, to the universities of Tirana, young people are telling their governments the same thing: in an age of massive wealth inequality, they want a future they can believe in,' he posted on X.
Khanna went on to claim that the protesters in France are 'asking for safe schools, enough teachers and smaller classes' before he hit out at Vice President JD Vance for blaming the protests on immigrants.
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'@JDVance says this is what happens when a nation lets in too many immigrants from the global south,' he wrote.
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He is not just morally wrong, but misreading the moment.
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[This] is what happens when nations let wealth and power accumulate in the hands of a few.
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This is what happens when young people lose hope in their future.
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'In America, let us listen to our young.
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We need an economic and political transformation - America's Next New Deal.'
A fire is seen burning and destroying the city hall in Limoges after a group of individuals forced entry into the building during ongoing protest action against the 'high cost of living'
People were seen passing next to the debris remaining on the street following the protests
The 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.
They have been joined by extremist politicians and activists such as Jean-Luc Melenchon, head of the hard-Left France Unbowed party.
Scenes from the weekend showed looters in France smashing their way into designer stores to steal luxury items amid the 'unrestrained violence'.
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Dozens of hooded young men were filmed swarming high-end outlets like Christian Dior and Louis Vuitton, leaving shelves of expensive jewelry and clothing entirely bare.
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President Macron blamed 'agitators from far-Left fringe groups, joined by numerous criminals' for plunging his country into 'unbridled violence.'
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.
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Protesters in Milan, Italy were seen vandalizing a shop on Sunday
Clashes began in Milan on Saturday on the sidelines of a sanctioned cost-of-living demonstration
Police in Italy carried out a number of detentions and arrests as the protests spread
Clashes then began in Milan on Saturday on the sidelines of a sanctioned cost-of-living demonstration.
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Similar troubles took place in the northern cities of Bologna and Turin following other protests.
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On Sunday, police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse groups in the Milan square and photographs showed young people, many wearing masks, throwing objects at police cars.
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A supermarket on a shopping street leading off the Duomo plaza was ransacked, rubbish cans overturned and scooters and bicycles vandalized.
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The mayor of Milan, Giuseppe Sala, said he had witnessed 'smashed shop windows, looted stores, and frightened citizens'.
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'What happened here is what we are seeing in many cities around the world,' he said.
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I'm very worried because it's a new phenomenon, which also originates from an international scenario and therefore feeds itself.'
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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.
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'To demonstrate is a right.
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To lay our cities to waste is not,' she wrote on X.
Government ministers joined Meloni in condemning the attacks.
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Matteo Salvini, head of the hard-Right League party and deputy prime minister, described the scenes as 'urban warfare.
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