France Braces for New Round of Protests as Officials Blame Far-Left Agitators
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France braces for new round of protests as officials blame far-left agitators
Left-wing groups backing the huge protests that devolved into chaotic riots in France are regrouping after a period of relative calm and plan to fill the nation's streets again on Saturday.
Leftist fire-starters and immigrants have pushed another French republic to the edge: 'Unholy alliance'
The French are no strangers to protests that go sideways. After all, the nation is on its fifth republic since 1792.Nevertheless, the rally on Saturday planned by the General Confederation of Labor and various other leftist outfits — a rally that quickly devolved into an orgy of destruction — proved to be too much for the French authorities to handle.'There’s a lot of tinder for the flame.'Luke Foster, assistant professor of government at Hillsd…
The French information services have identified the ultra-left and extreme radical left groups as the main ones responsible for the violence that broke out on Saturday in France, according to a security source cited by AFP. The authorities are talking about an unprecedented alliance between radical militants and young people in disadvantaged neighbourhoods.
France's information services believe that the "ultra-left" and "extremely radical left" groups were on the front line of the violence that broke out on Saturday, 17 October, in several French cities.
The information, which has its own classification of the various political groups, does not mention the parties to the left of the political spectrum (France Insoumise, French Communist Party...) as having participated in the violence. They classify the PCF and LFI as "the far left", note that the latter was present in the processions as in Paris, but, they note, there were no incidents of their fact. However, in their eyes, "the ultra-left" and…
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El EconomistaOn Tuesday, 20 October 2026, the French authorities pointed to the ‘ultra-left’ as responsible for an ‘insurgency’ plan during the riots that struck the country on the weekend, when the first detainees began to pass through the courts. The second largest economy in the European Union experienced some of its... The entry The French government places the focus on the ‘ultra-left’ as responsible for the riots was first published in Diario El Mercur…
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