“当我回来时，他们已经把东西全拿走了。”这是一位巴黎店主在清理店铺残骸时对我说的话，当时法国多地因生活成本抗议演变为暴力冲突。周六，混乱场面接连上演，骚乱者与警方发生冲突，点燃车辆和垃圾桶，随后蒙面游行者开始洗劫商铺，包括时尚的玛莱购物区。周日早上经过数百人被捕和短暂的紧张平静后，周日晚间暴力再次爆发，身着黑衣的骚乱者将碎片拖到街上并点燃。
"When I got back, they'd taken everything." That's what one shopkeeper in Paris told me as she cleared debris from her store after major cost-of-living protests turned violent across parts of France. Chaotic scenes unfolded on Saturday as rioters clashed with police and set vehicles and trash bins alight before masked marchers began to ransack businesses, including in the trendy Marais shopping district. After hundreds of arrests and a tense, momentary calm on Sunday morning, more violence broke out Sunday evening as black-clad rioters dragged debris into streets and set it aflame.
在骚乱期间，该地区一家精品时尚品牌的员工告诉我，情况感觉像“反乌托邦”，而且有一次催泪瓦斯开始渗入店内。不过，这显然还不足以劝退一些购物者，他们表示，有些人仍然继续浏览商品。他们还说，整个周六街道上警力密集，尽管他们雇佣了额外安保，但随着暴力升级，他们最终决定提前关门。周日我在城市中骑行时，感觉自己正沿着一条破坏之路前行，且随着我接近共和国广场——该市第三、第十和第十一区交汇处，也是周六最严重暴力事件的发生地——破坏程度逐渐加剧。
Employees at a boutique fashion brand working in the area as the riots unfolded told me the situation felt "dystopian," and that at one point tear gas began seeping into the store. That apparently was not enough to put some shoppers off, however, as some continued to browse, they said. They added that there was a heavy police presence on the street throughout Saturday, and that although they had hired extra security, they eventually decided to close early as the violence intensified. Cycling through the city on Sunday, I followed what felt like a path of destruction that steadily ramped up as I neared the Place de République, where the city's 3rd, 10th, and 11th arrondissements meet — the scene of some of Saturday's most serious violence.
我沿途在几家店铺停留，拍摄损坏情况并与店员交谈他们的经历。一家金饰回收店的店主告诉我，她的店面窗户被砸碎，被迫在周六提前关门。她说：“我接到一个电话。是我的邻居，他在隔壁餐厅工作。他拍了一段视频，显示一群年轻人。”她补充说，他们撞开了门并“把一切都砸了”。“他们偷走了东西。”她说。“当我回来时，他们已经把东西全拿走了。”后来，我停在一家被洗劫的尼古拉斯酒店外，这是该国最知名的葡萄酒零售品牌之一。
I stopped at several stores along the way to photograph the damage and speak with shop workers about their experiences. A store owner at a gold-buying shop whose front window had been smashed told me she was forced to close up early on Saturday. "I got a call. It was my neighbor, who was working next door at the restaurant. He'd made a video showing a group of young people," she said, adding that they forced the door open and "smashed everything up." "They stole things," she said. "When I got back, they'd taken everything." Later, I stopped outside a ransacked Nicolas wine store, one of the country's most prominent wine retail brands.
商店的橱窗大开，入口和两侧的展示窗被砸碎，露出被掏空的货架。空的香槟箱和玻璃碎片散落在地板上。在周六巴黎各地暴力事件中，被抢劫者瞄准并受损的其他商家还包括大型连锁超市、科技商店、酒吧和电子烟店。法国最大的连锁超市之一家乐福集团首席执行官亚历山大·庞巴尔表示，受损门店的维修费用将远超1100万美元。
The storefront was agape, the entrance and both display windows smashed, revealing shelves picked clean. Empty Champagne boxes and glass littered the floor. Among the other businesses targeted by looters and damaged in the violence across Paris on Saturday were major supermarket chains, tech stores, bars, and vape shops. Alexandre Bompard, the CEO of the Carrefour Group, one of France's biggest supermarket chains, said the cost of repairs to damaged stores would run well over $11 million.
他说，这种破坏将导致“相当严重的人道和经济后果”，因为特许经营合作伙伴将被迫削减数十名员工的工作时间。巴黎另一边的情况则相对平静。例如，在我位于蒙马特的公寓外，生活照常进行，露台上坐满了周末的欢乐人士，空气中弥漫着周六的活力。一位坐落在大道上、靠近摩兰丹红磨坊几家之隔的受欢迎的爱尔兰酒吧的调酒师表示，当晚特别忙碌，她没有看到任何麻烦，并补充说总体而言人们“非常有礼”。
He said the destruction would lead to "considerable human and economic consequences," as franchise partners would be forced to reduce the hours of dozens of employees. On the other side of Paris, the situation was calmer on Saturday. Outside my apartment in Montmartre, for example, life ticked along as usual, terraces full of weekend revelers and a Saturday buzz in the air. A bartender at a popular Irish pub along the boulevard — a few doors down from the Moulin Rouge — said it had been a particularly busy evening and that she had seen no trouble, adding that people were on the whole "very polite."
然而，到了周日早上，许多其他巴黎人醒来时看到的却是被砸碎的店面和取款机、碎玻璃、遍布垃圾的街道以及烧毁的汽车，他们走出家门迎来一个寒冷却天空湛蓝的早晨。还有迹象表明，城市已经开始恢复。工人们已经开始修复一家被闯入的就业机构，志愿者们也在清扫街道。随着巴黎努力重新站起来，市长埃马纽埃尔·格雷戈尔表示，当地企业将获得政府援助。
By Sunday morning, however, many other Parisians were greeted by smashed storefronts and ATMs, broken glass, litter-filled streets, and burned-out cars as they emerged into a chilly, blue-skied morning. And there were signs the city had begun to recover. Workers were already making repairs to an employment agency that had been broken into, and volunteers swept the streets. As Paris tries to get back on its feet, Mayor Emmanuel Grégoire said that local businesses would receive government help.
他说，他已申请成立一个“应急特别工作组”，以协助店主处理保险和行政程序。“你们每天都让巴黎充满生机。今天，轮到巴黎站在你们身边，”他说。
He said he had requested the creation of an "emergency task force to support shopkeepers" with insurance and administrative procedures. "You bring Paris to life every day. Today, it's Paris's turn to stand by your side," he said.