⌨Interior Ministry raised the toll from Saturday's third cost-of-living marches to 779 arrests including Halloween night and 159 injured officers, against 320,000 marchers claimed by authorities and nearly half a million by unions. The executive praised policing while conceding an intelligence failure on October 17. Attention narrowed to Paris where a Molotov cocktail set gendarmes on fire, prompting an attempted-homicide inquiry and testimony about intent to kill.
Coverage then pivoted to the school return. Student and high-school unions called for blockades from Monday and Tuesday ahead of a national strike on November 5. Prime Minister Lecornu asked regions to address 200 troubled lycées as the Elysée urged a return to class, while lawyers denounced house arrests used to bar activists.
Away from the movement, the 13th Route du Rhum left Saint-Malo in exceptional weather and a firefighter was gravely shot during an intervention near Marseille, with a suspect arrested.