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Oct 21, 2026
Emmanuel MacronSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I fully understand their concerns.
Melissa BellSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
CNN's Melissa Bell is on the ground.
ChanceHOST
He fully understands their concerns.
ChanceHOST
What about the for what about your own people's concerns? What about them? What about the people that have been there? Your entire city has been burnt down.
Jake TapperHOST
There have been more than 2000 arrests after a weekend of protests across France turned into rioting, looting, arson and even death.
Jake TapperHOST
CNN's Melissa Bell was in the midst of the violence.
Melissa BellCORRESPONDENT
The violence taking France and the world by surprise.
Melissa BellCORRESPONDENT
Clashes and looting that turned so many streets in France to chaos.
Emmanuel MacronSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
There's no way we will allow violent minorities to impose an agenda of violence and prevent us from holding this election.
Melissa BellCORRESPONDENT
The government is to hold talks this week with French political leaders to urge them to calm their rhetoric, even as it seeks to control its streets.
Melissa BellCORRESPONDENT
Melissa Bell, CNN, Paris.
Jake TapperHOST
And our thanks to CNN's Melissa Bell for that report.
Emmanuel MacronSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Those who sought to bring down the republic will be held accountable.
Pamela BrownHOST
All right, CNN senior international correspondent Melissa Bell has more from Paris.
Melissa BellCORRESPONDENT
Here at Place de la République where so much of the rioting and looting took place on Saturday night and again on Sunday with those fresh clashes that involve rioters and police, the cleanup operation continues as it does in other French cities.
Melissa BellCORRESPONDENT
A great deal of anger being expressed by the mayors of some of France's biggest cities this Monday given the police response or rather the lack of an adequate police response and given the extensive damage that the country's seen.
Melissa BellCORRESPONDENT
And as authorities fear, potentially much more of these kinds of protests ahead already.
Melissa BellCORRESPONDENT
The Yellow Vests, who were here last Saturday, are planning a fresh protest next Saturday.
Melissa BellCORRESPONDENT
Melissa Bell, CNN, Paris.
Pamela BrownHOST
All right, Melissa, thank you so much.
Shane BiggamHOST
He was speaking after large-scale protests across the country turned violent with looting and mass arrests.
Shane BiggamHOST
Melissa Bell has more from Paris.
Melissa BellCORRESPONDENT
The French president speaking to the nation this Sunday after the worst unrest France has seen in years swept the streets of the country on Saturday.
Melissa BellCORRESPONDENT
It was to a shock nation that he addressed himself after Saturday's protests saw more than half a million people take to the streets over demands that protesters say haven't been met, not just ones led by students that we've seen these last few weeks, but also anger over the cost of living and government inaction.
Melissa BellCORRESPONDENT
The French president spoke to the need for a meeting and urged calm to be restored.
Melissa BellCORRESPONDENT
The problem is there's already another protest planned here in France for November 5th and protests of this sort about housing and cost of living have now spread to other European cities.
Shane BiggamHOST
That was Melissa Bell reporting.
Shane BiggamHOST
Clashes have erupted between protesters and police in Milan for a second day, with demonstrators looting shops, damaging property and setting fires.
Mark ArumHOST
Yeah, just unbelievable.
Mark ArumHOST
Melissa Bell in Paris this morning for CNN.
Mark ArumHOST
Melissa, is this are these protests going to continue again today?
Melissa BellCORRESPONDENT
The end of this doesn't look like it's going to come anytime soon, Sarah.
Melissa BellCORRESPONDENT
More than 1,500 businesses were looted over the course of Saturday.
Melissa BellCORRESPONDENT
we've had the interior minister offer his resignation the French president refused it urging him to stand on but a lot of criticism about that police response how it could have been so inadequate Sarah when they knew that they were going to be many people on the streets of France on Saturday night so still the remnants uh all over the city you can see here they've been trying to sweep some of this debris to the side as they clean it off we've even heard this morning a great deal of anger from the mayors of some of these major french cities here in paris marseille and nice again very angry about the police response or lack of it with the mayor of paris going so far as to accuse the government of having deliberately allowed this protest movement to degenerate
Mark ArumHOST
melissa bell in paris this morning melissa how is this all playing out politically
Melissa BellCORRESPONDENT
I think that is the big question at this stage.
Emmanuel MacronSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Those who sought to bring down the republic will be held accountable.
Pamela BrownHOST
All right, CNN senior international correspondent Melissa Bell has more from Paris.
Melissa BellCORRESPONDENT
Here at Place de la République where so much of the rioting and looting took place on Saturday night and again on Sunday with those fresh clashes that involve rioters and police, the cleanup operation continues as it does in other French cities.
Melissa BellCORRESPONDENT
A great deal of anger being expressed by the mayors of some of France's biggest cities this Monday given the police response or rather the lack of an adequate police response and given the extensive damage that the country's seen.
Jake TapperHOST
It's now in its third week.
Jake TapperHOST
As grievances about school conditions boil over, CNN's Melissa Bell is in France for us, where police are being criticized for their forceful response to the protesters, who are mostly under the age of 18.
Melissa BellCORRESPONDENT
High schoolers in France angrier than ever and determined finally to be heard after more than two weeks of snowballing protests over school conditions, wounding hundreds of policemen and women, teachers, and high schoolers in scenes of unusual violence.
Melissa BellCORRESPONDENT
Among those wounded, a teenager who lost his hand after picking up a crowd dispersal grenade, and another who lost the use of his eye.
Melissa BellCORRESPONDENT
To be clear, what this has been about is the French government's growing inability to fund France's very generous welfare state, and this ahead of an election cycle that looks set to pit the far right against the far left, Jake.
Jake TapperHOST
All right.
Jake TapperHOST
Melissa Bell in Paris for us.
Jake TapperHOST
Thank you so much.
Pamela BrownHOST
There's also a lot going on in Paris as well.
Pamela BrownHOST
Let's go live now to CNN senior international correspondent Melissa Bell.
Pamela BrownHOST
She's in the midst of those protests in Paris.
Pamela BrownHOST
What do you see?
Melissa BellCORRESPONDENT
Across the country there are marches and protests that have just intensified.
Melissa BellCORRESPONDENT
In fact, the unions are saying that outside of Paris, there are 260,000 people in the streets of France, and that is a huge number when you look at it in the context, for instance, of the Yellow Vest protests of a few years ago, Pam.
Pamela BrownHOST
All right, Melissa Bell from Paris.
Pamela BrownHOST
A lot going on.
Pamela BrownHOST
There's also a lot going on in Paris as well.
Pamela BrownHOST
Let's go live now to CNN's senior international correspondent, Melissa Bell.
Pamela BrownHOST
She's in the midst of those protests in Paris.
Pamela BrownHOST
What do you see? Well,
Melissa BellCORRESPONDENT
And that is a huge number when you look at it in the context, for instance, of the Yellow Vest protests of a few years ago.
Melissa BellCORRESPONDENT
All
Pamela BrownHOST
right, Melissa Bell from Paris, a lot going on.
Pamela BrownHOST
Thank you so much.
Christiane AmanpourHOST
Protests, riots, and schools set ablaze.
Christiane AmanpourHOST
Melissa Bell explains the nationwide demonstrations over education funding.
Christiane AmanpourHOST
And also ahead...
Tamryn SpruillGUEST
The Women's League had been so pushed into the margins that people didn't know the players, and in this case, that the league even existed.
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Bianna GolodrygaHOST
Today, a 15-year-old protester reportedly lost his hand after picking up a police stun grenade.
Bianna GolodrygaHOST
An investigation is now underway.
Bianna GolodrygaHOST
Correspondent Melissa Bell joins us from Paris with more.
Bianna GolodrygaHOST
So, Melissa, we've been covering these protests now into their second week.
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