🇫🇷🔥 Total number of businesses destroyed or looted during riots:

- 10 shopping malls
- 200 supermarkets, including 15 set on fire
- 250 tobacconists
- 250 bank agencies

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📡📡📱 Government is looking to block hottest areas from 4G and 5G networks

👉🏻 The French government has questioned its telecom operators (Orange, Bouygues, SFR, Free), asking them if it was "technically possible" for them to cut off mobile data, 4G and 5G, in certain neighborhoods in France.

Suggested by Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, it would be to prevent rioters in the streets from communicating together, except at home trough Wifi.

In return, telecom operators immediately informed the government that cutting off such access was "technically unfeasible tonight", but "feasible later".

However, they also made it clear that :
Without a declared state of emergency, this is illegal.
Call for help and emergencies would be hindered, or made impossible.
Police and gendarmerie's high-speed broadband platform, "PC Storm", would not work.

For the time being, the Elysée has decided not to enforce this measure. If the situation becomes tense, the Interior Minister's wishes may well come true.

The government has not confirmed this information.

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🇫🇷🗞 Mainstream media «Le Monde» described last night as «quieter».

👉🏻 Two hours ago, the Ministry of the Interior reported 719 arrests nationwide, a far cry from the 1,300 or so made the previous night. «A calmer night thanks to the resolute action of the forces of law and order», Gérald Darmanin, Minister of the Interior, was pleased to report on his Twitter account during the night.

🔎 It remains to be seen if the momentum is truly slowing, or if the government and mainstream media are only trying to portray it as such. As a reminder, the 2005 riots lasted three weeks.

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