Thanks to the intervention of the police, numerous lootings were avoided and there were no attacks directed towards public buildings such as town halls or police stations, unlike on October 17.
These risk groups, people who wore makeup and mostly dressed in black, were made up of activists from the radical far left and the ultra-left. They have sometimes united ultra-radical elements around them.
These individuals broke away from the processions and sought to commit abuses, mainly against the police since they were prevented from wandering wildly or heading towards city centers.
In Toulouse, a 20-year-old man was seriously injured in the hand during clashes with the police.
This mobilization brought together 410,000 people in France according to the Ministry of the Interior and nearly 800,000 according to the CGT. Some 70,000 police officers and gendarmes were mobilized to supervise these processions. Nearly 1,000 people were arrested according to a provisional report late Saturday afternoon during a new day of social mobilization in France.
At the same time, on October 17, at the same time, the toll stood at 385 arrests. There will probably be investigations, and no disproportionate action has been reported to date according to the information provided. Internal security forces were confronted with an extremely high level of violence, marked by constant projectile throwing and mortar fire. The abuses were very numerous according to the authorities.
Some damage or looting of businesses has been reported in certain towns, in very limited numbers according to initial findings.