France braces for weeks more of protests as unrest spreads to Italy – Europe live

Interior minister Laurent Nuñez should stay to ensure chain of command with police and security forces, says president Macron criticises ‘unbridled violence’ after 2,400 arrests across France French president Emmanuel Macron has declined interior minister Laurent Nuñez’s offer to resign after widespread riots over the weekend, despite “failures in anticipation and intelligence” that were deemed to worsen the crisis engulfing the country.

Macron said Nuñez should stay to ‌ensure a chain of command is retained within the police and security forces, and has also asked Nuñez to set up ‌as quickly as possible new approaches to deal with looters, ​the Élysée Palace added, quoted by Reuters.

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