A beautiful historic building has been destroyed during riots across France carried out by far-left extremists and hordes of violent thugs of third-world immigrant descent.
The Limoges Town Hall, which was built in 1883 and survived both world wars, went up in flames on Saturday, while three hours north in Paris violence erupted near the Place de la République, and looters ransacked stores.
Footage of the ugly events shows a woman begging a group of masked rioters, who were all of North African and Sub-Saharan African appearance, not to loot her shop, and another small business owner being attacked as he tried to defend his comic book store.
“Why are you doing this?” the woman asks. “This is not the cause.”
Western liberals imported the third world into France and other countries in the name of diversity and compassion. They ignored fundamental questions of assimilation and compatibility. They were told it would lead to this and they didn’t listen.
I pray that France, a beautiful country of amazing people, will stop this madness before more of its landmarks burn.
And I hope Americans are paying attention. This is the future congressional Democrats seek for your country.
— JD Vance (@JDVance) October 18, 2026
FRANCE 🇫🇷 : A heartbreaking scene😢.
A business owner desperately pleads with looters and vandals to leave her shop alone.
Her livelihood is being destroyed before her eyes.
No business owner should have to endure this. https://t.co/afODffgTrV— Iris (@streetwize) October 17, 2026
J’ai tellement de la peine et de la rage devant ces images terrifiantes du gérant d’un magasin Micromania à Nice complètement désemparé par le pillage de son magasin..🙄
#17Octobre https://t.co/8Biow1UCHd
— Bleu Blanc Rouge ! 🇫🇷 (@LBleuBlancRouge) October 17, 2026
🇫🇷 Footage from central Paris today amid intense rioting across France. https://t.co/Q8YnbJmh2a
— Europa.com (@europa) October 17, 2026
Des véhicules de police sont prises pour cible par la foule dans le secteur République à Paris.
#Paris #17octobre https://t.co/yMReav1Tie
— Luc Auffret (@LucAuffret) October 17, 2026
Another video showed wealthy Frenchwomen, many appearing to be from the Baby Boomer generation, dancing in a public square while smoke from the riots taking place on the other side of the Seine River.
US Vice-President JD Vance was among those to condemn the destruction of Limoges Town Hall in response to a video of the bell tower collapsing, and said it was the consequence of mass immigration.
“Western liberals imported the third world into France and other countries in the name of diversity and compassion. They ignored fundamental questions of assimilation and compatibility. They were told it would lead to this and they didn’t listen,” he wrote.
“I pray that France, a beautiful country of amazing people, will stop this madness before more of its landmarks burn.
“And I hope Americans are paying attention. This is the future congressional Democrats seek for your country.”
An upmarket department store was looted in Bordeaux, and authorities confirmed similar evens took place in the capital, and in the cities of Marseille, Nantes, Toulouse and Rouen.
J’ai tellement de la peine et de la rage devant ces images terrifiantes du gérant d’un magasin Micromania à Nice complètement désemparé par le pillage de son magasin..🙄
#17Octobre https://t.co/8Biow1UCHd
— Bleu Blanc Rouge ! 🇫🇷 (@LBleuBlancRouge) October 17, 2026
⚠️🔴 À REGARDER JUSQU’À LA FIN
JE NE PEUX PAS DÉCRIRE CE QUE JE VIENS DE VIVRE À MARSEILLE.
#17octobre https://t.co/F8bLimtd7y
— confrontation française (@confrontfr) October 17, 2026
Riots also took place in Milan in front of the city’s historic cathedral and the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II shopping centre nearby, and in Brussels.
President Emmanuel Macron, who leaves office in six months, said there was “no place for violence”, but was also criticised for attending a Celine Dion concert on Friday night while violence raged nearby.
The violence follows weeks of similar rioting by non-White youths, which was orchestrated by the far-left and framed by the corporate media as “student protests”.
Header image: Left, the Limoges Town Hall’s bell tower collapsing (X). Right, the building in 2009 (Damien – mairie, CC BY-SA 2.0)
