French cities ‘calm overnight’ after targeted curfews, prime minister says – Europe live

Sebastien Lecornu suggests more curfews could be introduced to quell unrest after weekend protests

For a good summary of where we are when it comes to the French protests, you can catch up with Jon Henley's commentary for The Latest.

What we saw on Saturday was really an exceptional level of violence, even by French standards. In several towns and cities, there were attacks on those institutional targets. ...

If this kind of violence continues, then that's clearly a message that's going to start appealing to more and more French voters.