France Extends Curfews as 1,435 Arrested in Weekend Protests

The interior minister's own admission that unrest is unlikely to subside shifts this from a weekend policing story into a test of how long emergency-style local restrictions can be sustained. Decentralising curfew decisions to prefects and mayors keeps the political cost local while the central government absorbs the national tally of arrests. For markets, the relevance is indirect but real: prolonged disruption in French cities feeds into the broader European risk backdrop rather than any single asset. Whether arrest counts keep climbing in the coming days is the open question.