The estimate, based on claims so far, is likely to rise further after a week of riots and looting flared across France after the fatal police shooting of a teenager in a Paris suburb.
After riots in the French suburban housing estates in 2005 , the French government invested billions of euros to revamp the areas, but the similarity of the recent riots, and what spurred them, almost a generation later, raises questions over the failure of those efforts.
France's radical-left party LFI has been fined 40,000 euros in compensation and legal costs for using a work by street artist Combo's depiction of Marianne, the female symbol of the French republic, as a bare-breasted Asian woman, for its campaign videos without asking his permission.
Emile, aged two and a half, went on a walk while his grandparents prepared their car for a family trip from their house in a hamlet in the lower Alps region on Sunday, and despite a search involving a helicopter, drones equipped with thermic cameras and sniffer dogs, the infant remained missing on Monday.
Distrust and resentment smoulder beneath the surface in places like the Paris suburb of La Grande Borne, less visible than the weapons carried by gangs there, but just as likely to explode.
The French government issued a decree on Sunday prohibiting individual use of 'pyrotechnic articles' for the July 14th celebrations that mark Bastille Day, in a move that follows the use of fireworks as weapons against police during recent widespread riots.
Lawyers for the family of Adama Traoré, a 24-year-old black man who died shortly after his arrest by gendarmes in 2016, and whose sister has led a high-profile campaign for the officers to be brought to trial, have mounted a legal challenge against a ban by authorities on a march planned for Saturday in his memory.
French President Emmanuel Macron, meeting on Tuesday with more than 200 mayors from areas afected by the rioting sparked last week after the fatal shooting of a 17-year-old during a police traffic stop, said he believed 'the peak we have experienced in recent days has passed'.
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.
