🇫🇷⚡️- Far-left Presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon is now disavowing the riots in Paris, which, to nobody’s surprise, began looting and destroying restaurants and businesses, as seen in this video.

🇫🇷⚡️- The clothing store Make My Lemonade in Paris was surged, and presumably looted, on the Reuters live feed.

🇫🇷⚡- French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez says the government will not declare a state of emergency and that the rioters were on the periphery of the protests. He blamed the violence on the far left, saying masked groups committed violence against police, vandalized government buildings, and looted.

🇫🇷⚡️- Meanwhile, protesters in Paris have been attempting to break through a police barricade to reach the Élysée Presidential Palace.

🇫🇷⚡️- In Paris, rioters are throwing rocks and fiery projectiles at police vehicles.

🇫🇷⚡️- The Galeries Lafayette department store in Paris is in the process of being ransacked by the rioters.

🇫🇷⚡️- The Limoges City Hall was set ablaze and the fire is worsening.

🇫🇷⚡️- "Wallah fuck the police" shouts a rioter of African descent while throwing pavements / a chimney from the roofs of Paris. He reportedly missed.

🇫🇷⚡- BREAKING: The roof of the Limoges City Hall is collapsing as the fire quickly ravages most of the building.

🇫🇷⚡️- Jean-Luc Mélenchon accuses the French Prime Minister S. Lecornu of provoking the ongoing situation. It is to be noted that Mélenchon's party, LFI, was associated to literally every single gathering that turned into riots since the first outbursts.

🇫🇷 - The building inaugurated in 1883 survived two world wars but won't survive multiculturalism.

🇫🇷⚡️- Socialist mayor of Paris Emmanuel Grégoire says the toll of the riots on the city will be "of immense magnitude".

🇫🇷⚡️- Rioters are being kept at a distance from the Elysée. They were at around 200m from the building earlier today. They are now at around 400m.

🇫🇷⚡️- In Lyon, Sephora, a female beauty store, has been vandalized and ransacked by the rioters.