France will not be intimidated by violence, PM Lecornu says after protests

Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu said on Saturday ⁠that France ⁠would not be "intimidated" by violence after tens of ⁠thousands of people protested against rising costs and declining public services, months before a presidential election.

"To those who ⁠clearly ⁠want to use this violence as a 'warm-up' before the presidential election, I say clearly: ⁠We will not let ourselves be intimidated. No one will impose their political agenda ⁠through ‌violence," ‌he wrote in ⁠a ‌post on X.