The image, which claimed to be taken on October 17 amid violent protests and lootings across France, was widely shared on social media.<\/p>\n
France was reeling Sunday from widespread damage during protests the day before that left a historic town hall torched and led to more than 2000 arrests, piling pressure on President Emmanuel Macron six months before elections to replace him. <\/p>\n
It came as France\u2019s interior minister admitted police \u201clost control\u201d of protests across the nation over the weekend, as mayors demand to know why looters were left to ransack their streets.<\/p>\n
Laurent Nunez admitted there was a \u201clack of anticipation\u201d ahead of the weekend\u2019s violence and offered his resignation to President Emmanuel Macron, saying he \u201cfelt responsible for everything that happened\u201d. <\/p>\n
US President Donald Trump has blamed lax immigration policies for unrest during violent protests in France over the weekend and urged the country to \u201cclose your borders\u201d.<\/p>\n
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Meanwhile, Elon Musk has promised American children a slice of his space empire, pledging a stock giveaway potentially worth more than $15 billion in Aussie dollars.<\/p>\n
\u201cNext year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America. This will be the first of many,\u201d the world\u2019s first trillionaire posted on X on Monday. <\/p>\n
Read on for more updates from Monday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A viral image of an old couple in their underwear after apparently being mugged and stripped of their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":933934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[399121,500857,400380,500875,500856,500872,404987,404054,500867,500868,256,500852,2095,500871,500870,315976,64,500853,63,400403,99,16377,17106,6485,3120,448751,2592,500865,387194,500859,23518,500864,500866,25796,13052,500851,500855,405777,500861,500869,155207,438455,2591,1158,500858,1655,17736,92313,384465,1314,500862,8825,313300,379738,382541,439412,188490,22514,54798,500860,500873,500863,500874,378816,28333,389872,5073,47360,446,500854,500850,4050,422210,235413,500849],"class_list":["post-933933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-s-first-trillionaire","tag-s-interior-minister","tag-s-live-updates","tag-s-violence","tag-a-chaotic-paris-street","tag-a-historic-town-hall","tag-a-lack","tag-a-slice","tag-a-stock-giveaway","tag-a-viral-image","tag-ai","tag-ai-naked","tag-america","tag-american-children","tag-an-old-couple","tag-anticipation","tag-au","tag-aussie-dollars","tag-australia","tag-australia-time","tag-business","tag-click","tag-control","tag-elections","tag-elon-musk","tag-every-kid","tag-france","tag-here-the-image","tag-his-resignation","tag-his-space-empire","tag-image","tag-lax-immigration-policies","tag-looters","tag-mayors","tag-monday","tag-more-than-15-billion","tag-more-than-2000-arrests","tag-more-updates","tag-my-spacex-shares","tag-naked-image","tag-next-year","tag-october-17","tag-paris","tag-police","tag-president-emmanuel-macron","tag-pressure","tag-protests","tag-riots","tag-six-months","tag-social-media","tag-social-media-france","tag-sunday","tag-the-country","tag-the-day","tag-the-first","tag-the-image","tag-the-nation","tag-the-weekend","tag-the-world","tag-their-clothes","tag-their-streets-laurent-nunez","tag-their-suitcases","tag-their-underwear","tag-this-article","tag-tuesday","tag-two-women","tag-unrest","tag-us-president-donald-trump","tag-video","tag-violent-protests","tag-violent-protests-and-lootings","tag-viral","tag-widespread-damage","tag-world-events","tag-your-borders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/933934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}