Paris has introduced a local curfew from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. The restrictions took effect on the evening of Monday, October 19, 2026. The measures cover Place de la République, located on the border of the 3rd, 10th and 11th arrondissements, as well as several streets in the Les Halles district in the historic 1st arrondissement, foreign media report. This was reported by Qazaqyia.kz citing Kursiv Media.
French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu instructed prefects to introduce similar "very limited" measures in other cities to combat looting. A curfew (from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m.) has already been imposed for two days in four cities in the north of the country — Lille, Wattignies, Douai and Denain.
Mass protests and pogroms that erupted on September 21 over problems in schools later escalated into a general riot involving students, trade unions and farmers against rising prices. About 550,000 people took part in the actions across the country, and more than 2,000 were detained.
Amid the unrest, online platforms began to see listings for the sale of goods presumably stolen during the mass protests. The Vinted platform has already begun identifying and removing such posts.
"Over the past weekend, our team began identifying and removing listings that may relate to stolen property, and we have also strengthened control over suspicious listings," the company told BFMTV.
Earlier, Kursiv wrote that French President Emmanuel Macron, in an emergency address to the nation on the evening of October 18, 2026, demanded that the government take tough measures to prevent a repeat of the large-scale street unrest that erupted across the country. He called on the cabinet to learn lessons from the work of special services in collecting intelligence and forecasting such incidents.