Rideau

Press kit

Everything you need to write about Rideau: today's figures, a ready-to-use press release, the method, visuals and data. Free to reuse, crediting Rideau.

The story in five lines

  1. On 17 October 2026, shops were looted and wrecked in Paris, Lyon, Marseille and other French cities.
  2. Support fundraisers spread online within hours, and fake ones with them.
  3. Rideau puts the shops that were hit and their real fundraisers on one map, checked one by one.
  4. A neighbour finds the shops on their street, a journalist the figures and the sources.
  5. Rideau never touches the money: every donation goes straight to the shopkeeper's fundraiser.

What Rideau is, and is not

Rideau is

  • A map of the shops looted on 17 October and of their real fundraisers.
  • Fundraisers checked by hand, entries that cite their sources.
  • A free site, with no ads, in ten languages, with open data.

What Rideau does not do

  • Rideau collects no money, takes no commission and no donation passes through it.
  • Rideau does not open fundraisers on behalf of shopkeepers.
  • Rideau is tied to no party, no fundraising platform and no retail chain.

The figures

129shops on the map
29cities
14verified fundraisers
€166,112raised
10,438contributions

Computed from the map's data. Amounts read by hand on October 21.

By city

Paris€126,444
Lyon€27,668
Lille-
Nice-
Bordeaux-
Marseille-
Nantes-
Reims-
Grenoble€12,000
Montpellier-
Rouen-
Toulouse-
Avignon-
Nancy-
Rennes-
Limoges-
Tours-
Annecy-
Besançon-
Brest-
Caen-
Elbeuf-
Le Mans-
Lorient-
Metz-
Nîmes-
Poitiers-
Quimper-
Saint-Denis-
Amount raised by city
PlaceShopsFundraisersRaised
Paris237€126,444
Lyon204€27,668
Lille130-
Nice81-
Bordeaux70-
Marseille70-
Nantes50-
Reims50-
Grenoble41€12,000
Montpellier40-
Rouen40-
Toulouse40-
Avignon30-
Nancy30-
Rennes30-
Limoges20-
Tours20-
Annecy10-
Besançon10-
Brest11-
Caen10-
Elbeuf10-
Le Mans10-
Lorient10-
Metz10-
Nîmes10-
Poitiers10-
Quimper10-
Saint-Denis10-

By neighbourhood

PlaceShopsFundraisersRaised
Paris 2nd21€14,000
Paris 3rd21€6,400
Paris 4th20-
Paris 8th10-
Paris 10th84€101,232
Paris 11th81€4,812
Lyon204€27,668
Lille130-
Nice81-
Bordeaux70-
Marseille70-
Nantes50-
Reims50-
Grenoble41€12,000
Montpellier40-
Rouen40-
Toulouse40-
Avignon30-
Nancy30-
Rennes30-
Limoges20-
Tours20-
Annecy10-
Besançon10-
Brest11-
Caen10-
Elbeuf10-
Le Mans10-
Lorient10-
Metz10-
Nîmes10-
Poitiers10-
Quimper10-
Saint-Denis10-

The press release

Ready to use, with today's figures. Take it as it is or in part.

Rideau maps the real fundraisers for the shops looted in France on 17 October

Paris, October 21, 2026

On 17 October 2026, shops were looted and wrecked in Paris, Lyon, Lille, Nice, Bordeaux, Marseille, Nantes, Reims, Grenoble, Montpellier, Rouen, Toulouse, Avignon, Nancy, Rennes, Limoges, Tours, Annecy, Besançon, Brest, Caen, Elbeuf, Le Mans, Lorient, Metz, Nîmes, Poitiers, Quimper and Saint-Denis. In the days that followed, support fundraisers multiplied online, and fake ones with them: links opened in the name of shopkeepers who had asked for nothing.

Rideau (rideau.help) puts the shops that were hit and their real fundraisers on one map. So far: 129 shops in 29 cities, 14 verified fundraisers and €166,112 raised from 10,438 contributions (amounts read on October 21, 2026). The largest, for Lycamobile (boutique de Hassan) in Paris, stands at €94,932.

Every fundraiser is checked by hand before it is published: either the shopkeeper started it or shares it on their own channels, or a newsroom vouches for it. Every entry cites its sources, and when in doubt, nothing is published.

Rideau collects no money and takes no commission: every button leads straight to the fundraising platform. The site is free, ad-free, in ten languages, and its data is open (CSV and JSON, CC BY 4.0 licence).

A shopkeeper whose fundraiser is missing, or a neighbour who knows of one, can report it at rideau.help/en/signaler/. A wrong or outdated entry is corrected the same way.

Rideau was started by Gwendall Esnault, a Paris-based creator working between art and tech (gwendall.com), who runs Kami Robotics, an AI and robotics lab in Paris. In late 2012, a year before French Tech was born, he launched Paris Tech List, a free, collaborative map of the Paris tech ecosystem that within weeks became its meeting point, with more than 370 members, built in a weekend with no advertising and no paywall, as La Tribune reported at the time (Marina Torre, 9 January 2013). Same principle here: a public good, run by volunteers, with no middleman.

Press contact: presse@rideau.help. Figures, visuals, data and stories: rideau.help/en/presse/

The Rideau team

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The method

Verified with the owner

Verified: the shopkeeper started the fundraiser, or shares it on their own channels (their Instagram account, website or Google listing).

Reported by the press

Press: a newsroom presented the fundraiser as the shopkeeper's, with their name and its link.

Every amount is read by hand and dated, every entry cites its sources. When in doubt, nothing is published.

The full method, and how to spot a fake fundraiser.

Stories to tell

Shopkeepers whose story the press has already told, with the sources.

Shinzo

Reported by the press

Paris · 75002

Assia Sanaa defended her sneaker shop on rue Étienne-Marcel alone against the looters; seven shops of the Shinzo group were looted on 17 October.

Sources: Epoch Times France, Le Parisien

Will the shopkeeper talk? Not asked yet: write to us and we will put you in touch.

Rêve de Jade

Verified

Lyon · 69002 · €16,462 raised

Vanessa Rivas's natural stone jewelry shop was looted on the night of 17 to 18 October. She started a fundraiser herself and made an appeal on video.

Sources: France 24 / AFP, Le Bonbon Lyon, Le Progrès

Will the shopkeeper talk? Not asked yet: write to us and we will put you in touch.

Momie Mangas

Reported by the press

Grenoble · 38000

This 200 m2 manga bookshop was looted for half an hour on 17 October by about 200 people. Its founder Patrick Corbet would rather people keep their money and come to buy on the day it reopens.

Sources: Livres Hebdo, ActuaLitté, HuffPost

Will the shopkeeper talk? Not asked yet: write to us and we will put you in touch.

Je suis à vélo

Verified

Paris · 75002 · €14,000 raised

The bike shop on rue de Turbigo had its window smashed and its stock entirely stolen on 17 October. Its founder Caroline Labroue started a fundraiser herself to replace the window, rebuild the stock and reopen.

Sources: HuffPost, Journal du Geek, franceinfo

Will the shopkeeper talk? Not asked yet: write to us and we will put you in touch.

Visuals and data

Free to use to talk about Rideau. High-resolution screenshots, light theme.

Logo

Rideau, Light background
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Rideau, Dark background
Dark backgroundSVGPNG
Rideau, Logo
LogoSVGPNG

Screenshots

The map, on a computerThe map, on a computerA shop page, on a computerA shop page, on a computerThe map, on a phoneThe map, on a phoneA shop page, on a phoneA shop page, on a phone

Share visuals

The site's share image1200 × 630, PNGA shop's share imageLycamobile (boutique de Hassan), 1200 × 630, JPEGInstagram1080 × 1080, PNGStory1080 × 1920, PNG

Open data

The 129 shops on the map, one row per shop, updated with it. CC BY 4.0 licence: free reuse, crediting "Rideau (rideau.help)".

Download CSVrideau-commerces.csv · 129 × 24Download JSONrideau-commerces.json
The fields
id
Stable id, also in the shop page's address
name
Shop name
category
Category (telephonie, velo, librairie...)
ownership
independant, franchise or enseigne (owned by a chain)
address
Address or street, as published
postcode
Postcode
city
City
lat
Latitude (WGS 84)
lng
Longitude (WGS 84)
precision
address (exact address) or street (the street only)
status
verified (the shopkeeper runs or shares the fundraiser) or press (a newsroom vouches for it)
story
What happened, in one or two sentences (French)
damage_eur
Estimated damage in euros, as published (empty if unknown)
reopened
true if the shop has reopened, false if closed, empty if unknown
fundraiser_platform
Fundraising platform (Leetchi, GoFundMe...)
fundraiser_url
Fundraiser link
fundraiser_title
Fundraiser title
fundraiser_organizer
Who opened it
raised_eur
Amount raised, read by hand
goal_eur
Stated goal
contributors
Number of contributions
raised_at
Date the amount was read (YYYY-MM-DD)
sources
Sources, separated by a vertical bar
page_url
The shop's page on Rideau

Who is behind Rideau

Rideau was started by Gwendall Esnault, a Paris-based creator working between art and tech (gwendall.com). He makes things with computers: games, robots, artificial intelligence, and runs Kami Robotics, an AI and robotics lab in Paris. It is not his first public-interest map: in late 2012, a year before French Tech was born, he launched Paris Tech List, a free, collaborative map of the Paris tech ecosystem. Picked up by the press, it became within weeks the place where the whole ecosystem gathered: more than 370 startups, investors, incubators and venues signed up, with entrepreneurs from many countries. Same idea here: a public good, run by volunteers, with no middleman, where the money goes straight to the shops.

« En "un week-end", raconte-t-il, il a fait tout de A à Z »

« Pas de bannière publicitaire, ni de péage »

"In 'a weekend', he says, he did everything from A to Z." "No advertising banner, no paywall."

La Tribune (Marina Torre, 9 January 2013)

Also covered by: Cadremploi, L'Usine Nouvelle, FrenchWeb, Presse-Citron, E-Vous, TechBaguette, Terrafemina

Press contact

Write to presse@rideau.help. We answer fast, in French or in English.

The Rideau team