[UPDATE] Riots Spread Across Europe as Unrest Enters 5th Week

The Day After the Riots… This morning for the French did not begin with coffee and croissants, but with assessing the damage from yesterday’s riots. After the protests, authorities are tallying up the cost of broken storefronts, burned cars, and repairs to town halls. Authorities meanwhile are drawing their own conclusions: 1,200 detained and 150 injured law enforcement officers. In Île-de-France alone, 855 people were detained — a figure the police prefecture called a record. There is no unified count yet of injured among the demonstrators. In Saint-Étienne, a 17-year-old protester lost his hand in an explosion from a police…