Depois que tumultos eclodiram neste fim de semana em cidades de toda a França, o governo centrista culpou o principal partido de ultraesquerda, acusando seus políticos de incitar a violência. O partido, por sua vez, responsabilizou o governo, acusando-o de alimentar a indignação popular com anos de má gestão e policiamento truculento.
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The interior minister acknowledged that the police were underprepared for the scale of the riots. But Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu defended their efforts and pledged to restore order.
After anti-government protests devolved into chaos, leaders from across the political spectrum blamed one another for the unrest, even as it largely subsided on Sunday.
Riots broke out in several French cities alongside peaceful marches of tens of thousands of people demonstrating against rising living costs and poor school conditions.
A tourist office in Lyon, France, that was set on fire during unrest on Saturday. Many rallies stayed peaceful as weeks of student-led protests evolved into a national display of discontent.
Bally Bagayoko, the mayor of a working-class suburb near Paris, has been a regular presence at student demonstrations, prompting both applause and condemnation.
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