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In Lyon, France's third-largest city, police deployed armoured personnel carriers and a helicopter, while in Paris, they cleared protesters from the Place de la Concorde. Lyon Mayor Gregory Doucet ...
France also saw protests against racial profiling and other injustice in the wake of George Floyd’s killing by police in Minnesota. Tuesday’s killing was the third fatal shooting during ...
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. ... At least 78 ...
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.
Family of slained teen urge for unrest to ‘calm down’
Police put the number of protesters in the French capital at about 18,000, though the hard-left CGT union put the figure at around 50,000. ... Police said a total of around 121,000 protesters took ...