France Braces for More Protests as PM Warns of High Threat Level

France faces another day of high tension as cost-of-living protests continue, with Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu warning that "the threat level remains high" and 70,000 police officers deployed nationwide. Shops in Bordeaux and Paris are boarding up windows, and demonstrations are banned across the country. Lecornu blamed "the far left" and "delinquency" for exploiting the unrest, while promising state funding to rebuild Limoges' destroyed town hall. President Emmanuel Macron addressed a shooting near Paris on X, calling it a racist terrorist attack that killed Pengo Bossio Wangi and left five critically injured, including a child.