Reports also highlight eSports trophies being stolen, with gaming chairs being piled up in street fires.
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Aujourd'hui, les locaux de notre club ont été pillés en marge de la mobilisation du 17 octobre.
Heureusement, aucun membre de notre staff ni aucun fan n’a été blessé. En revanche, nos vitrines ont été détruites, nos trophées et notre matériel informatique volés.
En attendant d’évaluer la totalité des dégâts, V.Hive restera fermé.
Plus d’informations seront communiquées par la suite.
Prenez soin de vous October 17, 2026
Above, you can see the confirmation of the serious, unfortunate events seen over the weekend. “Our display windows were destroyed, and our trophies and computer equipment were stolen,” lamented the post [machine translation], while being thankful that no members, staff, or fans of Team Vitality were hurt. The bulletin ends with the news that the V.Hive will remain closed for now, until after damage has been assessed. More information is promised in due course.
There are a multitude of social media posts sharing images, videos, and pointing fingers at what they see as the cause of the protests, riots, and looting. Of course, fingers point in all directions, and unfortunately there are also reports of AI-generated rage-farming media, so keep a critical eye open should you dare to doom scroll.
Of course we’ve focused on the damage and looting of Team Vitality’s HQ due to the tech angle. The compendium of video clips shared by the news organization NEXTA provides evidence of the extent of the V.Hive attack . This 30-second clip appears to show rioters hammering at and kicking in the eSports HQ’s windows, taking items from the premises, and throwing gaming chairs onto bonfires in the street.
Los "estudiantes" franceses saquearon la arena de Esports de paris y se robaron el trofeo que team vitality gano en el torneo de counter strike
Tambien se robaron las PC gamer y las destriparon ahi nomas en plena calle https://t.co/FjEkVPDuV6 October 17, 2026
We also see accounts like ElBuni share clips of looters brandishing what appear to be eSports trophies from Team Vitality’s HQ (embedded above). The second clip shows looters with their hands inside gaming PCs opened up on the sidewalk. It looks like the hooded and gloved looter in the video is removing RAM sticks , an easily pocketable yet highly valuable PC component , as you will all know.
RAM thieves in China jailed after looting a string of eSport hotels
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