To ensure the missionaries' safety, the following plans have been implemented:

• Missionaries have been instructed to stay out of the neighborhoods where demonstrations/burnings are most likely to occur and to avoid gatherings that could turn into demonstrations.
• Paris-area missionaries have a 7:00 PM curfew on weeknights unless they have a teaching appointment with members who will bring them home by private automobile afterward. On weekends, the Paris-area missionaries are to be in their apartments by dark.
• Arrangements are being made with local priesthood leaders to assign suitable members to take the missionaries into their homes if conditions escalate and require it.
• Each apartment has a week’s supply of food should it become prudent to keep the missionaries in for several days. Missionaries are also to have sufficient funds at their disposal.

For further coverage of the civil unrest, please see Google News.

Nicolas Sorhaitz has been kind enough to send this reassuring comment on the situation:

I have made a point of reassuring all our friends who live outside of France. As we all know, the media exaggerate the facts a lot. I can assure you, we are not living in a civil war, and Paris is not in flames.

The burned-out cars are in districts and well-isolated streets in certain cities. The media make people think that whole cities are on fire. It is absolutely not the case. I myself live in Parisian suburbs.