PARIS, Oct. 18 -- The bell tower of Limoges's town hall toppled sideways through the building's roof on Saturday after what TASS described as groups of radicals broke in and set ground-floor rooms alight. Citing France 3 footage, TASS reported that firefighters fought the blaze for an hour before it reached the roof. Mayor Guillaume Guerin said there were "no words to condemn what happened."

It was one fire in a weekend whose count kept rising. Interior Minister Laurent Nunez wrote on X on Sunday that 1,800 people had been detained and more than 500 officers injured, TASS said. Anadolu Agency then reported more than 2,000 arrests after Yellow Vest protests marred by violence, with over 600 police officers, gendarmes and firefighters hurt...