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In the estimated 160 protests organized around the country, police estimated that half a million students and labourers participated. Organizers estimated the number was closer to 1.5 million. [6] Students (including high school students) demonstrations began to become daily, and often were the site of clashes with the police.
On Tuesday, transportation workers, as well as some high school teachers and public hospital personnel, demonstrated in dozens of locations across France. [1] According to the French interior minister, 107,000 people participated in the protests following calls from leftwing parties.
Author Helene Sula shares her journey to an unconventional life abroad, focusing on travel blogging and living child-free. I thought I wanted kids, but moving to Europe with my husband changed my mind
High school student unions spoke in support of the riots on 6 May. The next day, they joined the students, teachers and increasing numbers of young workers who gathered at the Arc de Triomphe to demand that (1) all criminal charges against arrested students be dropped, (2) the police leave the university, and (3) the authorities reopen Nanterre ...
CANTON — Amidst the heat of the pandemic, Effrem Gnepo was living in his hometown of Paris, France, set to abandon his lifelong favorite sport.. Gnepo, a known Lionel Messi fan, had exclusively ...
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.
Mass rallies were held nationwide after a series of protests and peaceful demonstrations, led by 600,000 students and young civilians living in suburbs in Paris and surrounding towns against the death of Death of Malik Oussekine, a Franco-Algerian student who did not participate in protests and was killed in custody and demanded the withdrawal of the Devaquet law.
France will mobilize up to 7,000 soldiers to increase security around the country after a teacher was fatally stabbed and three other people wounded in a school attack by a former student ...