French President Macron told the public that he will be uncompromising towards the rioters, and that he understands the people's concerns about rising prices.
I will be uncompromising towards the rioters, French President Emmanuel Macron said this evening (October 18) while addressing the public on the occasion riots that swept the country this weekend.
He stated that a full investigation will be conducted into the conduct of the security forces during the protest.
Condemnation of unbridled violence
"Those who tried to overthrow the Republic will be called to account," Macron was quoted as saying by Le Monde.
He condemned the "unbridled violence" and said that "nothing can justify it".
The French president estimated that rebels from radical left-wing groups, joined by numerous criminals, took part in the violence.
He stressed that protesters with "legitimate demands" had to be distinguished from those who were "destroying, smashing and looting", admitting that concerns about the cost of living and rising fuel prices were justified.
Emmanuel Macron attributed these price increases to the consequences of the conflict in the Persian Gulf, in which France did not participate. Announced on Monday that he will continue his international efforts to secure French fuel and gas supplies with a visit to the Gulf countries.
Protests over the rising cost of living and poor conditions in schools at the weekend brought together hundreds of thousands of people across France. Police arrested at least 1.800 people after clashes with protesters and looting of shops.
It started at school.
The wave of mass protests in France began in mid-September as a local strike and rebellion by students and teachers in a high school in the poorer Paris suburb of Creteil, and the cause was the disastrous conditions in education - a chronic shortage of teachers, overcrowded classrooms and neglected, dilapidated school buildings.
They then spread across the country, and the original demands for education reform were joined by mass street protests against the high cost of living, rising fuel prices and government austerity measures.
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