{"id":412704,"date":"2025-09-10T08:44:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T08:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/412704\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T08:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T08:44:10","slug":"paris-in-flames-as-rioters-clash-with-police-and-pig-heads-dumped-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/412704\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris in flames as rioters clash with police and pig heads dumped | World | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paris<\/a> descended into chaos overnight as rioters clashed with police, hurling bottles, setting fires, and defacing landmarks with graffiti demanding President Emmanuel Macron<\/a>\u2019s resignation. The turmoil, a prelude to Wednesday\u2019s nationwide \u201cBloquons Tout\u201d (Block Everything) strikes on September 10, 2025, was exacerbated by a chilling wave of anti-Muslim acts\u2014nine pig heads left outside mosques, some scrawled with \u201cMacron\u201d in blue ink.<\/p>\n

The city braces for worse as tens of thousands prepare to paralyse France over the 2026 budget\u2019s punishing austerity measures. On Monday, Prime Minister Fran\u00e7ois Bayrou\u2019s minority government collapsed<\/a> after a 364-194 no-confidence vote, his push for \u20ac43.8 billion in savings uniting far-left and far-right opponents.<\/p>\n

Mr Bayrou told the National Assembly: \u201cAll the challenges facing us come down to one essential, urgent question\u2026 controlling our spending and our excessive debt.\u201d<\/p>\n

He futher warned that \u201cdomination by our creditors\u2026 produces the loss of our liberty.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Bayrou’s budget cut \u20ac5.5 billion from hospitals, eliminated May 8 and Easter Monday holidays, froze pensions, and slashed public services\u2014deemed a \u201chorror show\u201d by unions.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cFrance has not had a balanced budget in 51 years,\u201d blaming pandemics and wars for the crisis.<\/p>\n

Mr Macron, with approval ratings at a grim 15%, appointed S\u00e9bastien Lecornu as PM on September 9, rejecting calls for new elections.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cTo be free in this world, you have to be feared,\u201d defiant amid impeachment demands.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday the \u201cBlock Everything\u201d movement\u2014born on social media, backed by unions and extremists\u2014 is planning roadblocks, sit-ins, and strikes across transport, schools, and hospitals.<\/p>\n

Paris hotspots such as Bastille and R\u00e9publique face heavy police presence, with 80,000 security forces deployed nationwide. RER D and Transilien R face disruptions, though metro services may continue running.<\/p>\n

The pig head incidents, confirmed at four Paris mosques and five in suburbs like Montreuil, have heightened tensions. Police Chief Laurent Nunez called them \u201cdespicable,\u201d launching a hate crime probe.<\/p>\n

He warned: \u201cWe are not ruling out the possibility that others may be found,\u201d noting possible \u201cforeign interference\u201d links but urging caution.<\/p>\n

Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau condemned the \u201coutrageous\u201d acts, saying: \u201cI want our Muslim compatriots to practise their faith in peace.\u201d The Grand Mosque\u2019s rector, Chems-Eddine Hafiz, decried a \u201cnew and sad stage in anti-Muslim hatred.\u201d<\/p>\n

With France\u2019s Muslim population exceeding six million, these acts\u2014pork being haram in Islam\u2014have deepened divides amid a 75% spike in anti-Muslim incidents in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paris descended into chaos overnight as rioters clashed with police, hurling bottles, setting fires, and defacing landmarks with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[141857,141858,1700,34,36,12,141856,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-412704","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-anti-muslim-acts","9":"tag-austerity-measures","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-emmanuel-macron","12":"tag-france","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-paris-riots","15":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115179124737430365","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}