Policing of France’s school protests clouds Macron’s final months and sparks uproar
- France’s nationwide school protests have involved mass arrests and hundreds of injuries, causing widespread unrest.
- About 8,000 people, mostly teenagers, have been arrested, while more than 900 officers and nearly 150 school staff members have been wounded.
- Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said police used crowd-control weapons at least 18,000 times and suspended one grenade after a 15-year-old lost a hand.
- Authorities were investigating 36 alleged cases of police misconduct, including injuries and suspected sexual assaults.
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In France, mass protests against high cost of living and social inequality have begun nationwide.
The mobilizations bring together students, members of the yellow vest movement and other collectives demanding social and economic improvements. Macron called for calm, while the authorities maintain an extensive police deployment in the face of potential riots.
It is an unreadable patchwork of demonstrators who met on October 17 to express their anger in the street, everywhere in France. Paris, Nantes, Lyon Toulouse, Rennes...... L的article Events of October 17: to whom will benefit from social anger ? appeared first on Current Values.
Demonstrators across France called for street protests today against the rising cost of living, joining high school students who expressed dissatisfaction with education conditions after more than three weeks of school blockades.
Tens of thousands of people are expected to participate on Saturday in demonstrations throughout France - 170,000, according to previous estimates of the police -, in a mobilization that brings together students, students, trade unionists and members of the movement "The Yellow Vest, dissatisfied with the increase in the cost of life, social inequalities and the deterioration of public services, reports BFM TV.
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