On 18 October 2026 France saw some of its most destructive unrest in years, with clashes between police and protesters nationwide, looting, arson and the 19th-century Limoges town hall left in ruins. Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said 1,200 people were arrested and 150 police officers injured, and President Macron vowed vandals and looters would be punished. Reporting since puts half a million people on the streets over the weekend, roughly 1,500 businesses damaged or looted, and one demonstrator dead of cardiac arrest in Paris. Later accounts put Saturday's arrests near 2,400 and injured officers near 1,000, and note the interior minister reinstated stun grenades the eve of the protest. The protests have spread to Brussels and Milan, and unions put…