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Aborted French interior ministry project could have mitigated riots

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Bruno Retailleau in Paris, 10 October 2026.
Bruno Retailleau in Paris, 10 October 2026. © Thomas Padilla/MaxPPP

The French interior ministry in the middle of last year looked into a project with top security and defence officials to improve the monitoring of social media in France, which could have helped better predict the scale of demonstrations on 17 October.

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