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Two French news channels backpedaled and apologized this weekend after they misidentified images of protests in Albania as demonstrations taking place in France.

Thousands of police officers in riot gear descended on Paris Saturday to monitor France’s only sanctioned protest. The officers — wearing helmets and carrying shields — uniformly walked through the city as protesters shouted obscenities at them.

The peaceful march that had wound through Paris for hours had suddenly descended into violence

France's Interior Ministry said 410,000 people took part in protests nationwide, though unions said the true figure was twice as high.

The NFL shut down its NFL House fan hub in Paris on Saturday, and the New Orleans Saints postponed their own fan events to Sunday as the French capital explodes in violent protests.

NFL House and city-center shop closed on Saturday Paris braces for protests amid heavy police presence Live: Thousands march in Paris and other French cities The NFL closed its “NFL House” in Paris on Saturday as the city braced for street protests with a heavy police presence and storefronts boarded up. The league announced the closure to fans on Saturday morning through its “OnePass” app, a day after saying its pop-up NFL shop would also be shut on Saturday – in both cases citing “potential accessibility issues”. Continue reading...

Paris police estimated turnout at 110,000, with demonstrators mobilizing despite restrictions that confined the march to the city's southeastern edge, away from the center.

The NFL closed its fan zone in Paris Saturday due to intense street protests, but the New Orleans Saints and Pittsburgh Steelers are still set to play the league’s first game in France Sunday, despite President Trump suggesting it push the face-off back. Fans received a notification through the NFL’s “OnePass” app that the “NFL...

Thousands joined fresh protests in France on Saturday as the government stepped up efforts to avoid a repeat of last weekend’s riots by mobilizing additional law enforcement officers and keeping marchers out of central Paris.

Tourists were turned away from the Louvre as heightened security measures, nationwide demonstrations and fears of further unrest disrupted travel and major cultural attractions across Paris.

France deployed thousands of police Saturday for fresh protests over school funding and soaring living costs, seeking to prevent another weekend of looting, burned cars and attacks on public buildings. In Paris, authorities restricted the main march to the city's...

The NFL closed its "NFL House" in Paris on Saturday as the city braced for street protests with a heavy police presence and storefronts boarded up.

Firearms dealers in Paris have reported a massive surge in sales for non-lethal deterrents including high power pepper spray guns. The post Self-Defence Weapons Sales Surge in Paris Ahead of Anticipated ‘Act II’ Riots on Saturday appeared first on Breitbart .

A week after 3,000 shops were damaged or looted, France braces for more protests.

Citadel CEO Ken Griffin compared the Paris riots to Chicago's violent crime, warning young Americans that France's socialist policies lead to turmoil.

Steelers, Saints still on for NFL’s Paris debut on Sunday Violent protests prompt US security warning for fans PSG cancel Sunday match amid escalating Paris unrest The NFL would have cancelled its first regular-season game in Paris, scheduled for Sunday, if the situation were unsafe, Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers said on Friday, referring to the recent protests in the French capital. France experienced some of its worst urban unrest in years last weekend, prompting President Emmanuel Macron to tighten restrictions on protests on Thursday amid fears that demonstrations planned for Saturday could turn violent. Continue reading...

Gunman opens fire from car in Trappes and Verrière, killing one and injuring five others, including a 12-year-old girl Emmanuel Macron has condemned racism in French society after a gunman opened fire from a car west of Paris on Friday, killing one person, wounding a 12-year-old girl and injuring four others in what the president called a “racist terrorist attack”. Macron arrived at the scene of the drive-by shooting in Trappes, a town west of Paris, on Friday night, saying he was deeply saddened by what he called the “premeditated” attack. The 12-year-old girl, who was shot eight times, is being treated in hospital. Continue reading...

State Department issued travel warning ahead of a busy weekend in Paris that promises 'act two' riots and a major NFL match in the city. The post U.S. Issues Riots Security Alert For France Ahead of Paris NFL Match appeared first on Breitbart .

The Pittsburgh Steelers canceled a fan event in Paris ahead of the NFL's big Oct. 25 game at the Stade de France as the country continues to be beset by violent rioting and looting. The post Steelers Cancel Fan Event in Paris as Rioting in France Continues, But NFL Says Game is On appeared first on Breitbart .

After arriving as an emigrant from Africa, I worked so hard to build a business. After it was attacked last weekend, a revolutionary young woman told me on live television that it didn’t matter, writes Jhemima Sheilha. How could anyone defend last weekend’s violent protests in France? In Paris alone, about 450 businesses were damaged, and about half of those were looted, according to authorities. Shopkeepers saw their livelihoods destroyed, their employees attacked, and their faith in the French Republic deeply shaken. But defending the rioters was exactly what influencer and college student Lola-Fleur Whittaker did on Monday night during a French television program called “La Grande Confrontation.” “Vos boutiques, c’est bien mignon,” she said mockingly, which translates to “Your shops, so sweet.” That was too much for Jhemima Sheilha, who was also on the program, to bear in silence. “It’s my life, Lola,” said Sheilha, whose new shop near Place de la République, Caffé Urban Bakery, was smashed with sledgehammers and ransacked. “What justifies terrorizing people’s lives?” Whittaker rolled her eyes. We asked Sheilha, 36, to describe what happened at the bakery she and her husband spent five years toiling to open, how she confronted the looters who took everything, and why she believes her business is now at risk of crumbling, along with France itself. —The Editors When I arrived in France in August 1999, I did not know my father. I had been raised by my uncle and my aunt after the death of my mother, Henriette, an activist in the Democratic Republic of the Congo who campaigned against the country’s former president, Mobutu Sese Seko. In 1994 she was poisoned by a member of her own family who supported the president. She was 36. On the day I was born, one of my older sisters, who was only 3, died of sickle cell disease. My mother learned of her death as she was leaving the maternity ward. She left the hospital with a new child and a new grief to carry. My mother did not have much money. She sold water in plastic bags at the markets, and sometimes, when she had no choice, she left my other sister and me alone. On the day my mother died, I was 4. She had gone to a political meeting, after which she was supposed to pick us up. She never came home. After my mother’s death, I stayed with my aunt until I arrived in France to live with my father. I had never met him before. For the first few years, we lived in a 1,000-square-foot room in the Paris suburbs. It was very hard. I had been a good student, but now I was failing, and even though I was seeing a speech therapist, progress was slow.

New World Orchestra’s musicians are shocked at French police targeting peaceful gathering with teargas Europe live – latest updates As riot police encircled Place de la République last week, lobbing teargas canisters to disperse demonstrators, the conductor Étienne Jarrier and his orchestra played on. They kept playing even after everyone else had disappeared and teargas was being fired into the central Paris square. It was only when Jarrier noticed his musicians were being directly targeted that he ordered them to stop. “There were teargas canisters landing in the double bass and music stand cases, and starting fires the musicians had to stamp out,” he told the Guardian. Continue reading...

At least one person was killed and four people were injured in a shooting near Paris, French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said Friday.

Paris Police banned protests and demonstrations in some areas of the city on Thursday, including around the presidential palace, along the Champs-Elysées and near other tourist sites, citing the risk of violence.