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News card: Rioters set fire to Limoges' historic town hall; its bell tower collapses

News card from EXE Index. Headline: Rioters set fire to Limoges' historic town hall; its bell tower collapses. File photo, August 20, 2015, by Juliofsanguino (CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons): the ornate stone Limoges town hall under a blue sky, its central bell tower and clock above the facade and a monumental fountain on the right; not from the Oct 17 fire. Key facts: Saturday Oct 17, about 5 p.m. local, at the end of a cost-of-living march; masked people broke windows, got inside and set the 1883 building alight, per AFP; the bell tower fell and the roof collapsed except the west wing, and the prefect says the building is largely lost; no one inside was hurt, the prefect says; the city will file a complaint, and the building has been a listed historic monument since 1975. Sources: AFP via France 24, RFI, TF1 Info, France 3, ICI. exeindex.com/crime. Record dispatch:2026-10-17-fr-limoges-town-hall. @exeindex.
File, Aug 20, 2015: Limoges town hall and its bell tower · not from the Oct 17 fire. Photo: Juliofsanguino · CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons); card CC BY-SA 4.0 EXE Index (share-alike from the photo)

Oct 17: Masked rioters broke into Limoges' 1883 town hall after a cost-of-living march in France and set it alight. Its bell tower fell; the prefect says the building is "largely lost." No one inside was hurt. /crime The Limoges prosecutor, Émilie Abrantes, opened a criminal inquiry into the fire, Le Populaire du Centre and Ouest-France report. The Haute-Vienne prefect, Maurice Barate, said early Sunday that 19 people had been taken into custody; some arrests relate to looting of shops, the prosecutor said.

What
News card: Rioters set fire to Limoges' historic town hall; its bell tower collapses
Where
Europe
When
2026-10-17
Source
AFP
Credit
File, Aug 20, 2015: Limoges town hall and its bell tower · not from the Oct 17 fire. Photo: Juliofsanguino · CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
License
CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons); card CC BY-SA 4.0 EXE Index (share-alike from the photo)
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Europe, France

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  1. AFP
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