A Third Weekend of Protests in France as Youth-Led Rallies Sweep Europe (World)
French officials deployed 70,000 police and gendarmes as protesters pressed demands over living costs, education and housing.
- On Saturday, hundreds of thousands of mostly young protesters marched across France in a third consecutive weekend of demonstrations over rising living costs and education.
- The movement began with high-school students protesting school conditions, then broadened into anger over living costs. Corentin Cabreux, a 21-year-old student, cited "damp stains all along the bottom of my walls, whole sections peeling off, cockroaches everywhere, rats" in state-run housing.
- French Minister of the Interior Laurent Nunez deployed 70,000 police across the country and rerouted Paris marches to outer boulevards, restricting access to Place de la Republique to prevent unrest.
- Demonstrations spread across Europe, with German youth initiative Gen Z regelt rallying in multiple cities for education and climate protection, while Italian police reported clashes in Milan, Turin, and Bologna.
- High school student Lara Breitenbach stated, "We call for more money to be invested in social services and education, as well as in climate protection," arguing youth will live longest with these consequences.
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France has experienced its “act III” of protests this Saturday to denounce the decline of public services and the high cost of living. Some 320,000 protesters, according to the Ministry of the Interior, half a million according to the calculation of the unions, have paraded across the country for the third consecutive weekend. Students started protests a month and a half ago to demand more media in education and the demands have spread throughou…
France sees third weekend of protests as youth-led rallies sweep Europe
Tens of thousands of mostly young protesters, some dressed as clowns and witches for Halloween, took to the streets across France on Saturday in a third weekend of demonstrations over living costs and education. Police fired tear gas in Paris after clashes broke out at the end of the march. Youth rallies were also held in Germany and Italy.
PARIS (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of protesters, mostly young, took to the streets throughout France on Saturday on the third consecutive weekend of cost-of-living and education protests.
A third weekend of protests in France as youth-led rallies sweep Europe (World)
Hundreds of thousands of mostly young protesters took to the streets across France on Saturday in a third consecutive weekend of demonstrations over living costs and education. About 70,000 police and gendarmes were deployed across the country, and Paris marches were rerouted to the capital's edge. ...
France braces for third week of protests
France prepared yesterday for a third consecutive weekend of protests over living costs and education, deploying 70,000 police and gendarmes and pushing the Paris march to the capital’s edge as youth-led demonstrations spread across Europe.French Minister of the Interior Laurent Nunez warned of a “v
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