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At least 78 people were reportedly arrested across France yesterday, significantly down from 719 arrests the day before. More than 3,000 people have been detained overall following a mass security ...
At least 78 people were reportedly arrested across France yesterday, significantly down from 719 arrests the day before. More than 3,000 people have been detained overall following a mass security ...
Family of slained teen urge for unrest to ‘calm down’
Protests across France sparked by the police shooting of a 17-year-old last Tuesday have been described as like a “mini civil war” by a British national living in Marseille.
According to the French interior minister, 107,000 people participated in the protests following calls from leftwing parties. A number of black-clad protesters clashed with the Police and smashed shop windows with 11 protesters being arrested in Paris. [2] Other estimates stated that over 300,000 people participated in the protests. [8]
On 9 June 2024, the National Rally party headed by Jordan Bardella, obtained 31.36% of the votes in the European parliamentary elections, causing French President Emmanuel Macron to dissolve the National Assembly and call for new legislative elections in two rounds on 30 June and 7 July 2024, to elect the 577 members of the 17th National Assembly of the Fifth French Republic.
Video clips falsely linked to the protests were shared on social media, including footage from The Fate of the Furious of cars falling from a building, [122] a video of a fire at a parking lot in Australia, [123] footage taken at a music concert in Mexico, [124] and a 2020 clip showing a Louis Vuitton store in Portland, Oregon in the United ...
2007–09: 2007–09 university protests in France, protest movements resulting from several reform projects under Minister for Higher Education and Research Valérie Pécresse. 2009: 2009 French riots, a series of riots that occurred on Bastille Day (14 July) in the commune of Montreuil, an eastern suburb area of Paris.