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Protests in France: Louvre entrance blocked and about 1,500 shops looted

France witnessed protests and unrest, including the blocking of the Louvre museum entrance in Paris by students and protesters and the Interior Ministry's announcement that 350 people were arrested in Paris on Sunday. Interior Minister Laurent Nunez acknowledged a loss of control in some cities, while looting and vandalism hit about 1,500 commercial establishments.

📍 Where things stand: The protests and their fallout continue, with damage to the retail sector being assessed, calls to speed up compensation, and debate over the scale of the security deployment.

⏱️ Timeline

  1. 19 Oct 2026, 11:20 Agence France-Presse reported that protesters blocked the entrance to the Louvre museum in the French capital, Paris, without further details.
  2. 19 Oct 2026, 11:26 The French Interior Ministry said 350 people were arrested in Paris on Sunday, while the interior minister said police lost control in some cities during the protests, at a time when France is witnessing protests and acts of violence.
  3. 19 Oct 2026, 11:38 The management of the Louvre museum in France announced that students closed the museum's entrance, a step in support of the high school students' movement and in condemnation of police repression.
  4. 19 Oct 2026, 13:09 Protesters gathered at and besieged the entrance of the Louvre museum in Paris, in a new escalation of the protests. French Interior Minister Laurent Nunez acknowledged that security forces "lost control" in some cities during the weekend unrest, with talk of gaps in security preparedness and intelligence gathering, explaining that 60,000 police and gendarmes were deployed on Saturday, compared with 80,000 in 2018 and 89,000 a year earlier.
  5. 19 Oct 2026, 17:05 Looting and vandalism affected about 1,500 commercial establishments, including stores of global luxury brands such as Apple, Louis Vuitton, Dior, Hermes, Burberry, Lacoste and Celine, as well as Decathlon, Sephora, Carrefour and Galeries Lafayette, amid preliminary estimates of losses reaching hundreds of millions of euros and calls by retail officials to accelerate compensation payments and tighten measures against those involved.
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