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Paris pharmacist describes destruction as unrest fuels political accusations

An Israeli report pairs a shop owner's account with Macron's condemnation and disputed explanations linking the violence to immigration and political alliances.

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2:22Macron condemns violence and looting; Hasson's narration criticizes his response.
2:51Perez-Shakdam and Kupfer-Naouri attribute the unrest to an alliance between the far left and Islamists.
5:22Habib recounts what he says was Netanyahu's warning to Macron about terrorism spreading to Europe.
7:13A woman pleads with looters; pharmacist Odelia Sidoun then describes her looted and burned business.
9:20Former France soccer player Emmanuel Petit tells those who disrespect France to leave.
10:44The report presents Meloni's punishment demands and Mélenchon's accusations before Trump's American political warning.

Odelia Sidoun surveys the damage to her pharmacy in Paris's 10th arrondissement: goods scattered, the premises wrecked. In Ayala Hasson's report for Israel's Kan News, the news division of the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation, Sidoun describes a business looted and burned during the unrest.

Her account follows footage of a woman pleading with looters not to destroy a shop. These street-level scenes anchor an October 24 report that moves from fires and confrontations to a strongly political argument about immigration, Islamism and the French left.

French President Emmanuel Macron appears condemning the violence and looting. Hasson's narration criticizes his response, including the report's account that he and his wife attended a Céline Dion concert as the disorder began.

The report shows large pro-Palestinian demonstrations at Place de la République, clashes with police and damage to monuments. Journalist Catherine Perez-Shakdam and lawyer Nili Kupfer-Naouri, chair of the advocacy group Israel Is Forever, argue that an alliance between the far left and Islamists has contributed to the violence. That explanation is the interviewees' political assessment, rather than something the street footage establishes.

Perez-Shakdam also describes the burning of Limoges's historic town hall. Former French lawmaker Meyer Habib recounts a conversation in which, he says, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Macron that terrorism would spread to Paris and elsewhere in Europe if it were not stopped.

Another intervention comes from former France soccer international Emmanuel Petit. In a clip included in the report, he angrily tells people who do not respect France to leave.

The closing section broadens the political response beyond the streets. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni calls for tougher punishment, while the report presents French left-wing leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon blaming Israel. It ends with US President Donald Trump turning the French unrest into an American partisan warning: "Just remember, that is what the radical Democrats want to do to America."