22-year-old dies in fall from Paris’s Arc de Triomphe

A 22-year-old man died after reportedly falling from the Arc de Triomphe in Paris on Saturday afternoon. Prosecutors have opened an investigation and authorities are treating the death as suicide; the case matters amid unrest in the capital, though no link to the demonstrations has emerged.

Emergency services attended the scene in the eighth arrondissement, and the man was declared dead at 3.05pm. The 163-foot monument was closed to the public. Separately, protests over living costs, education and the government drew about 550,000 people across France, with more than 1,200 arrests and reports of looting and damage to buildings.