Policing of France’s school protests clouds Macron’s final months and sparks uproar
An officer was charged with aggravated violence as 36 police misconduct probes widened and authorities said 8,000 people were arrested in recent weeks.
- France faces nationwide demonstrations Saturday as student protesters and the Yellow Vests plan to converge, posing a challenge to President Emmanuel Macron before next year's elections.
- Protesters demand better-resourced schools and protection from inflation surging above three percent, while Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu faces pressure to pass a cost-cutting budget through parliament.
- Security forces have used crowd-control weapons at least 18,000 times, French Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said, though an officer was recently charged with aggravated violence for a 16-year-old's injury.
- Claiming protesters' "legitimate" demands are being "exploited for political purposes," Macron faces pressure as far-left and far-right candidates maneuver to capitalize on his waning popularity.
- Paris police have launched legal action against an influencer on Twitch who urged followers to join the demonstration "war zone," while authorities banned major marches through the city's tourist heart.
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dna.frAnnounced for several weeks, the return of the yellow vests scheduled this Saturday has become a great social test for the high school mobilization, which seeks not to blow off with the school holidays, and for the CGT which has grafted into the movement. But the shape that this new day will take remains unknown.
The country is preparing this Saturday for a day with 90 demonstrations that will now be joined by the 'Gilets Jaunes' with a heavy history of urban violence.In 2019, in protest of a fuel tax, it made disasters in the French streets. Authorities activated a crisis cell and shielded strategic points in Paris.
The high school students, but also yellow vests or climate activists were preparing on Friday to bring their angers together on Saturday in the street, a national mobilization whose scope is still unclear. ...
The French government is expecting "quite significant demonstrations" on Saturday after the former yellow vest movement announced hundreds of public actions across the country to protest livelihood problems, joining high school students who have been protesting for a month over underfunding of public education and are taking to the streets again.
Faced with the day of protest scheduled for Saturday 17 October, Sébastien Lecornu triggers an interministerial crisis cell. Between fears of overflows and tensions around purchasing power, Matignon and...
Authorities expect up to 140,000 protesters to take to the streets tomorrow.
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