Social media platforms like TikTok and Snapchat have come in for criticism from some political quarters over their knowing use during the past week's rioting in France as a vehicle for organising attacks and showing rival videos of the chaotic scenes.
A Paris court has fined the French railways operator SNCF 1,000 euros for negligence and ordered it to pay another 1,000 euros in damages to each of the two owners of a cat which, after escaping its travel bag in Montparnasse station, was killed by a departing high-speed train.
Léon Gautier, the last surviving member of the 177-strong Kieffer French commando unit that took part in the June 6th 1944 allied landings on the beaches of German-occupied Normandy, and who lived in retirement in the coastal town of Ouistreham which he had helped liberate, died on Monday at the age of 100.
Mayor Vincent Jeanbrun of L’Haÿ-les-Roses, a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, said it was an attempt to kill him; meanwhile around 700 more arrests were made across France on Saturday night and into Sunday morning.
Meanwhile France's national soccer team – including international star Kylian Mbappé, an idol to many young people in the disadvantaged neighbourhoods where the anger is rooted – has pleaded for an end to the violence.
Up to 45,000 police officers have been deployed as cities across France ban public demonstrations and limit transport following unrest after shooting of 17-year-old Nahel.
President Emmanuel Macron meanwhile also called on parents to take responsibility during the riots and on social media outlets to remove "sensitive" rioting content.
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