France’s student protest movement is ‘out of control,’ Paris police chief
First reported 30 Sept, 08:33 UTCUpdated 1h ago35 sources
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President Emmanuel Macron’s government is battling to contain demonstrations over classroom conditions and funding
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According to interior ministry figures, 1,027 high schools out of the 3,700 across France had been affected by the movement's actions against overcrowded classrooms, teacher shortages and crumbling facilities.
Student protests have grown in scale and intensity, with violent clashes in some places leading to hundreds of arrests and dozens of injuries.
Unrest has flared across the country as students demand improvements in school conditions.
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- French high school protests spread nationwide from Paris suburbs (opens Daily Sabah in a new tab)
Protests over teacher shortages and deteriorating conditions have spread through French high schools for 10 days, beginning in Val-de-Marne near Paris. The movement, with students...
- France: Hundreds arrested as student protests escalate (opens Deutsche Welle in a new tab)
Student protests have grown in scale and intensity, with violent clashes in some places leading to hundreds of arrests and dozens of injuries.
- French PM holds crisis meeting as student protests spread nationwide (opens RFI in a new tab)
High school protests in France spread to universities on Thursday as students demanding more funding, smaller classes and the replacement of absent teachers continued blockades across the country. The government has announced a new platform to hear high school students' grievances, after days of protests that have…
- Students hold protest over higher education funding (opens RTÉ News in a new tab)
Hundreds of students from across the country are protesting in Dublin, demanding greater Government investment in higher education.
- Student protests rage across France as PM holds crisis meeting (opens The Globe and Mail in a new tab)
Demonstrations have become a political flashpoint at a sensitive moment for the government, which announced a series of unpopular spending cuts
- French school protests spread as fires, blockades deepen unrest (opens South China Morning Post in a new tab)
A protest by French secondary school students over overcrowded classrooms, teacher shortages and crumbling facilities deepened on Thursday, with fires set outside schools and blockades in several cities. More than 160 schools were shut down on Thursday, while university students joined the protests in Paris and…
- France school protests escalate into ‘urban violence’ as PM calls crisis cabinet meeting (opens The Guardian in a new tab)
About 900 demonstrations, blockades and related incidents under way outside high schools around the country A fast-growing protest by high-school students over long hours, teacher shortages and decaying facilities has escalated into “urban violence”, the French government has warned, as it said many schools would…
- Hundreds of French schools to stay closed after violent student protests (opens Sky News in a new tab)
Around 400 French schools are expected to stay closed on Friday to try to quell a series of violent student protests around the country.
- French protests over school conditions spread as students set fires and put up blockades (opens Euronews in a new tab)
High school students were joined on Thursday by university students, as violent incidents took place in several French cities and even spread to the Belgian city of Liege.
- Fires break out at French schools as students protest nationwide (opens BBC News in a new tab)
The French government holds a crisis meeting as demonstrations grow and become violent in places.
- French school protests turn violent as government blames far left (opens The Washington Times in a new tab)
Student protests over crumbling schools and teacher shortages have spread across France and turned increasingly violent, prompting a crisis meeting Thursday called by PM Sebastien Lecornu.
- ‘Violence, clashes and damage’: Student protests in France leave hundreds injured, about 2,000 arrested (opens National Post in a new tab)
The office of prime minister said the demonstrations had become ‘urban violence’ and cited the intelligence service when saying they had been organized by the radical left
