French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez offered his resignation to President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday, and Macron refused it, the Élysée Palace said in a statement reported by The Guardian, the BBC and Le Figaro.

The Élysée said police needed continued leadership at this time, The Guardian and Le Figaro reported. Macron asked Nuñez to be open about the failures in planning and intelligence that led to the violence, The Guardian and Le Figaro reported.

Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu is holding a crisis cabinet meeting on Monday to assess the weekend of violence, the BBC reported. The Guardian said the government was holding crisis talks.

The unrest followed cost-of-living protests on Saturday. The BBC said more than half a million people, most of them peaceful, marched against rising prices and shrinking public services.

The interior ministry said nearly 2,400 people were arrested, The Guardian and Le Figaro reported. The ministry also said about 1,000 police officers and gendarmes were injured on Saturday, seven of them seriously, The Guardian and the BBC reported.

More than 1,500 shops and businesses were looted or wrecked, The Guardian and the BBC reported. The Guardian credited that figure to traders' unions, and the BBC called it an estimate. In Limoges, in central France, the historic town hall was badly damaged by fire, The Guardian and the BBC reported. The Guardian said people stormed the building and set it alight.

Politicians on the left and the right had called for Nuñez to quit, The Guardian reported. Le Figaro said the Greens, France Unbowed and the National Rally had demanded his resignation.

Macron's government and far-right leader Marine Le Pen blamed what they called "ultra-left" groups for the violence, The Guardian reported. The speaker of the National Assembly wants an inquiry into what happened, the BBC reported.

The unrest comes with the next presidential election about six months away, the BBC reported. Le Pen and the far left's candidate are both vying for attention over the unrest, the BBC said.

What we know: Macron has refused Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez's offer to resign after weekend riots that the interior ministry said led to nearly 2,400 arrests.
What we don't: What changes the government will announce after Monday's crisis meeting.