Milan clashes and French protests feature in ETimes' unrest report
The video moves from burning barricades near Milan's Duomo to French demonstrators describing high living costs and understaffed schools.
Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 114,429 views a day, 128 times a normal first day on this channel (893).
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- 0:22The report links Milan's demonstrations to living costs and describes fires and property damage.
- 2:27Meloni condemns the violence while distinguishing peaceful protest from setting cities ablaze.
- 2:50Coverage shifts to French protests, including a fire at the historic town hall in Limoges.
- 3:34A French demonstrator cites high gas prices, difficult living conditions and problems in schools.
- 5:23Another demonstrator describes teacher shortages and school buildings that are too cold in winter and hot in summer.
- 6:14The closing section reports arrests, injured officers and President Macron's warnings of prosecutions.
Burning barricades outside Milan's Duomo open an ETimes report that drew about 86,000 views within its first fourteen hours, far beyond the channel's usual start for a regular video.
The clips channel's upload covers demonstrations that it says turned violent amid protests over living costs and the war. Footage shows marches through Piazza del Duomo, followed by fireworks, fires and confrontations with riot police. The report also recounts Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's condemnation of the violence and her distinction between the right to demonstrate and setting cities ablaze.
Despite its Italy-focused title, a substantial portion of the video covers France. It shifts to a burning town hall in Limoges, then reports on damaged storefronts and police responses in Montpellier and Lyon.
Alongside those scenes, French demonstrators explain the pressures behind their participation: expensive gas, household budgets stretched thin and schools lacking teachers and adequate facilities. That gives the upload another subject beyond the street confrontations: the everyday costs and public-service complaints voiced by people taking part.
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- Channel
- ETimes
- Subscribers
- 1,530,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 2,202,279
- Channel views, pace per day
- 268,357
- Video published
- October 18, 2026
- Video views so far
- 85,630 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 114,429
The numbers
The Milan report's early views are far above ETimes' usual first-day audience for regular videos.



