LIVE, hearing of Laurent Nuñez: "The assessment of the day of October 17 is a failure," declares the Minister of the Interior at the beginning of his hearing before the inquiry committee.

The parliamentary inquiry into the violence of October 17-18 begins with Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez's testimony. The commission will investigate how authorities prepared for such events and the intelligence available. Following the violence, the government acknowledged failures in anticipating the protests. Nuñez stated that intelligence services had warned of potential risks, including the involvement of far-left and far-right groups. He identified four operational decisions that helped manage subsequent protests on October 24. Nuñez admitted that the police response on October 17 was inadequate, attributing it to the exhaustion of forces and the need to balance public order with the right to protest. He emphasized that the day's events were a failure but not solely due to intelligence shortcomings.