‘It’s hard for us’: Paris small businesses bear brunt of protest violence

Paris, France – Jagged shards of glass frame the hole kicked through the window of Hassan Rashdul’s mobile phone shop near Place de la Republique, the epicentre of looting and rioting that swept this part of Paris on Saturday.

“I was crying,” Rashdul says, as he watches a CCTV livestream on his phone.

The glass countertop is shattered, the floor carpeted with broken glass....