Furthermore, the mayor of Marseille announced the arrival of the Minister of the Interior on Monday after this violence, declaring that he wanted explanations.
The main shopping streets of Marseille suffered significant looting on the sidelines of the demonstration on Saturday October 17.
Interviewed on Sunday, October 18, Nicole Richard-Verspieren, the president of the Marseille city center merchants' association, said that"all the major shopping streets were 80% robbed."She describes the situation as “a massacre, it was terrible” and questions the continuation of the activity in the face of the destruction of equipment, the theft of cash registers and safes, as well as the disappearance of goods.
Nicole Richard-Verspieren also claims that traders have not received closure instructions from the town hall or the prefecture, and judges that the Minister of the Interior should resign.