Gérald Darmanin

Nearly 50 individuals have been arrested in France for attempting to disrupt the Olympic Games, according to French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, as reported by DPA. Darmanin stated on France 2 television that the security services detained these people who aimed to conduct "acts of sabotage or radical protests" during the early competitions of the Olympics.

France on Wednesday declared a state of emergency in its overseas territory of New Caledonia after a second night of rioting in which three people were killed and hundred injured, as anger over constitutional reforms from Paris boiled over.

French authorities are bracing themselves for nationwide protests by agricultural workers scheduled for Monday in Paris. The farmers, dissatisfied with their pay and living conditions, have intensified their demonstrations over the past week, employing highway blockades and causing damage to public property, including government offices.

French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin has authorized an extensive mobilization of security forces for New Year's Eve, calling upon 90,000 police officers, 5,000 military personnel, and tens of thousands of firefighters. The move is a response to the prevailing terrorist threat, as reported by BTA.

A person known to the French authorities as a radical Islamist with mental health troubles stabbed a German tourist to death and wounded two people in central Paris on Saturday before being arrested, officials said.

Around 2,000 people defied a ban to join a memorial rally in central Paris Saturday for a young black man who died in police custody, while marches took place throughout France to denounce police brutality, as tensions run high after days of rioting engulfed the country.

Nationwide, around 5,900 people took to the streets, according to the interior ministry.

Crowds gathered at town halls across France Monday to show solidarity with local governments targeted in six nights of violence touched off by the fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old in suburban Paris.

President Emmanuel Macron is trying to contain the growing crisis after midnight riots in France sparked by the fatal police shooting of a North African teenager during a police check in a French suburb, Reuters reported.

A French police officer who shot and killed a 17-year-old driver will be investigated for voluntary homicide, following two days of fires and violent protests that injured scores of officers, officials said Thursday.

Some 40,000 police officers will be deployed overnight to quell violence that engulfed cities and towns in the wake of the shooting.

France hosts a meeting of European ministers on Nov. 28 to discuss ways to stop migrants crossing the Channel in dinghies, but without Britain, which has been excluded following a row last week.