French nationalists have taken to the streets to defend their cities and neighbourhoods from far-left extremists and ultra-violent mainly non-White thugs who have been rioting and looting across France.
Footage from Lyon shows a large group of right-wing activists marching through the city displaying French flags, Celtic crosses, and a banner saying “anti-casseur”. Casseur means “breaker” in French and is used to refer to militant protesters who engage in vandalism and property destruction.
One video from Lyon shows the large group chanting “the streets and France belong to us”, and another from the city of Rouen showed a small group of nationalists charging at hundreds of far-left protesters.
À Lyon ce soir, la résistance s’organise.
Ne restez pas isolés, regroupez-vous, préparez-vous. https://t.co/yIXmo2IqX0
— UNION ET DÉFENSE DE LA JEUNESSE (@UDJ_Officiel) October 19, 2026
« La rue, la France nous appartient » : les anti-casseurs se mobilisent ce soir dans les rues de Lyon. https://t.co/LGXKtMrxzs
— Damien Rieu (@DamienRieu) October 19, 2026
À Lyon ce soir, la résistance s’organise.
Ne restez pas isolés, regroupez-vous, préparez-vous. https://t.co/yIXmo2IqX0
— UNION ET DÉFENSE DE LA JEUNESSE (@UDJ_Officiel) October 19, 2026
Footage filmed by Antifa shows a group of about 20 nationalists charging at thousands of far-left extremist and third-world protesters in Rouen, France. https://t.co/EDC38atrbr
— N News (@NoticerNews) October 18, 2026
Other images shared online show groups of nationalists in Paris, Nice, and Nantes with flags captured from Antifa, a trans-national far-left group which has been designated as a domestic terrorist organisation in the United States.
Store owners have also been fighting back, with the owner of a gaming shop in Nice, named Pierre, hailed as a hero for fighting off a gang of African looters, and another filmed pouring hot water on a crowd of thugs who were ransacking an optician’s store.
The nationalist response comes after a weekend of extreme violence, where a historic town hall in Limoges, south of Paris, was burned to the ground, and more than 3,000 shops were looted across the country, causing hundreds of millions of euros in damage.
Rioters also attacked police and the elderly, waved Palestinian and Algerian flags, and vandalised statues and monuments, but spared kebab shops and stores owned by Muslims.
À Lyon ce soir, la résistance s’organise.
Ne restez pas isolés, regroupez-vous, préparez-vous. https://t.co/yIXmo2IqX0
— UNION ET DÉFENSE DE LA JEUNESSE (@UDJ_Officiel) October 19, 2026
« La rue, la France nous appartient » : les anti-casseurs se mobilisent ce soir dans les rues de Lyon. https://t.co/LGXKtMrxzs
— Damien Rieu (@DamienRieu) October 19, 2026
Police arrested 2,400 people over the weekend, and police have now imposed curfews in some municipalities to try to stop the riots, which has been framed as “student protests” by the corporate media despite few students being involved.
The rioting and looting, almost entirely carried out by young men of African of Middle Eastern descent, also spread to neighbouring countries, with immigrant-background thugs causing chaos in Milan and Brussels.
The extreme violence has caused global outrage and sparked warnings about mass immigration from the third world, including from Donald Trump, US Vice President JD Vance and One Nation leader Pauline Hanson.
Header image: Left, right, nationalist activists in Lyon (X, Telegram).
