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Eamon O'Hara

Oct 20, 2026

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2:18
Toulouse hasn't been too badly affected.
2:21
There was demonstrations there at the weekend and there was some violence and some destruction, you know, as there was in other big cities.
2:29
But it wasn't as bad as places like Paris, Marseille, Lyon, Limoges.
2:35
Some of the other cities were more badly affected.
2:39
But still, you know, they're young.
2:41
My son is 20, my daughter is 18.
2:43
She's just moved to Toulouse, actually.
4:29
Why now? Do you think it's connected to the fact that you're probably as a nation just sort of six months away from trying to decide on a successor to President Emmanuel Macron? And we've seen so many elections happen in France over recent years because the political nature of the country is sort of quite unstable in recent history.

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