Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu met unions ahead of Thursday's party talks at Matignon, which Jean-Luc Mélenchon vowed to disrupt, while the CGT backed the October 24 mobilization and called for a general strike from November 5. President Emmanuel Macron ruled out a state of emergency, announced a Thursday review with intelligence services and ministers, and attacked foreign politicians exploiting the violence.
Prefects renewed curfews for a third night in Paris around République and Les Halles, Lyon and other cities, then banned gatherings Thursday and Saturday, as Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin reported 2,500 custodies and 174 imprisonments and immediate trials of alleged looters continued. France's 10-year borrowing rate crossed 5% for the first time since 2002.
A Mirage 2000D crashed near Pont-Ă -Mousson killing at least one, an Orange outage disrupted calls, a global PHP flaw took public sites offline, and storms in Bouches-du-RhĂŽne left three dead.