French Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said on Saturday, November 2, that police had arrested nearly a thousand people during the protests across the country, and that number would increase as more statistics were released. According to Nunes, the cost of living protests went well in various cities, but later the police encountered a very high level of violence from "extreme leftist groups". At the same time, reports of intense clashes between protesters and the French police were published in the cities of Paris, Lyon, Strasbourg and Marseille.

French Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said on Saturday, November 2, that police had arrested nearly a thousand people during the protests across the country, and that number would increase as more statistics were released. According to Nunes, the cost of living protests went well in various cities, but later the police encountered a very high level of violence from "extreme leftist groups". At the same time, reports of intense clashes between protesters and the French police were published in the cities of Paris, Lyon, Strasbourg and Marseille.