The mayor of the previously sleepy French city of Limoges has accused Emmanuel Macron’s government of having failed to properly equip police, claiming that officers ran out of ammunition as rioters stormed City Hall and set the historic building ablaze.
Limoges Mayor Guillaume Guérin of the centre-right Républicains party told broadcaster BFMTV that around 700 “ultra-left” Black Bloc rioters joined the protest on Saturday of around 5,000 intent to “destroy, smash, and kill people.”
Mayor Guérin said that at around 3:30 pm on Saturday, “having run out of ammunition, the national police began to fall back along the boulevards” before ultimately being “overrun by groups of rioters and ‘black bloc’ agitators,
