Donald Trump has blamed French student riots on 'mass migration' and 'Islam wanting to take over' following days of chaos across the country.
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Islam → blame → country
The US president waded into the debate on his Truth Social account on Tuesday evening, claiming the situation in France has become 'out of control'.
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situation → wad → control
It follows days of protests in the country's major cities as hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets to protest failing school conditions.
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But many of the demonstrations have turned violent.
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Today in Paris, police were seen using tear gas and pepper spray to push back protestors who were spotted launching stones and rocks at officers in retaliation.
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who → see → retaliation
It came after the far-Left mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, who himself joined the riots, drew criticism for claiming that 'violence can become legitimate at a certain point'.
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Posting to social media this afternoon, Trump said: 'What's happening in France is nothing less than out of control mass migration.
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happening → post → migration
'This isn't about schools, this is about Islam wanting to take over a once great Country!
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Islam → want → Country
It comes as the arrest total for the school riots, which began last month, reached a staggering 6,100 tonight.
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Donald Trump has blamed days of protests in France on 'out of control mass migration' and 'Islam wanting to take over a once great Country'
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Islam → blame → Country
Hundreds of thousands of protestors have taken to the streets of the country's major cities in recent days to protest failing school conditions
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A spokesman for France's interior ministry, which earlier estimated that more than 250,000 people took to the streets to protest today, said: 'There have been 6,1000 arrests, 1483 of them minors, since the protests began three weeks ago.'
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All were taken into custody for a variety of public order offences, from violence against public officials to vandalism.
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At least 715 officers and 215 teenagers have been badly injured in clashes, the spokesman added.
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Shocking images from Paris showed riots, many donning balaclavas and masks, setting alight bins, letting off flares and climbing on statues this afternoon as riots went out of control.
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At the Place de la Nation, one of the city's most iconic squares, local police officers told reporters that gangs are 'trying to attack us' constantly.
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Many protestors were also heard shouting: 'Everyone hates the police!'.
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One officer said: 'Gangs of youths are trying to attack us constantly.'
Such scenes are however far from confined to the streets of the French capital.
In Rennes, police were pictured using waters cannons in a bid to ease the chaos ensuing on the country's streets.
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Meanwhile, French newspaper Le Parisien reported that some inciters are telling their Snapchat followers to 'bring knives' and 'stab civilians in the crowd' outside the Couffignal high school in Strasbourg.
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inciters → report → Strasbourg
Similar scenes were also replicated in southern French cities such as Marseille, Lyon and Bordeaux.
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It comes less than 24 hours after a 15-year-old schoolboy lost his left hand when a police grenade exploded in Lens, around 150 miles from Paris.
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Footage from the scene showed several people tending to the young man as he lay on the pavement.
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His left hand appeared to be missing, with a bloody stump in its place.
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Several people were heard screaming in the video.
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He was later seen slowly walking away from the scene.
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Other reports claim he lost his arm up to his elbow but this has not been confirmed.
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Protestors are calling for an end to the country's substandard school conditions, with thousands complaining of missing teachers, overloaded timetables, dilapidated classrooms and buildings that cannot copy with rising temperatures.
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A Paris protester called Carole, 17, said: ‘Classrooms are full of rats, and teachers are not always present – the conditions are terrible.
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Figures from the political Left have been accused of encouraging riots in a bid to boost their vote, with a number of politicians joining protestors on the streets this week.
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number → accuse → streets
One of those today was Jean-Luc Melenchon, the France Unbowed hard-left presidential candidate, who previously accused the country's current government of 'steadily dismantling public services'.
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Mr Mélenchon has a serious chance of replacing Emmanuel Macron as head of state in 2027, when Mr Macron will be forced to stand down, having spent two terms in office, the maximum allowed.
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A Toluna Harris poll last week suggested that Mr Melenchon and Marine Le Pen, of the far-Right National Rally, would advance to next year’s presidential run-off, with Le Pen best placed to win.
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Mr Bagayoko, the aforementioned left-wing mayor of the Parisian suburb of Saint-Denis, was another of those to join rioters in the capital.
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He said he opposed violent but adamantly stood by the thousands of protestors causing chaos on the streets of France.
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'I stand by being on the side of my residents, and high school students are my residents,' he said.
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The French Greens, meanwhile, called on elected officials and parents of rioters to join in wearing 'with white helmets, white armbands, white clothing, to go and protect our children in the demonstrations'.
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Green leader Marine Tondelier spoke in front of a high school in Lens – the city where the teenager's hand was blown off by a stun grenade on Monday – saying: 'All political families together should have this concern to allow our young people, those who wish to do so, to express their demands in safety.'
Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu's office has called for 'peaceful' gatherings, calling for a return to 'a structured, legal and democratic form of opposition'.
He has also ordered government officials to tackle the students' main demands, including ensuring absent teachers are replaced, reviewing the length of the 8am to 6pm school day and the need for longer lunch breaks.
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The government would also look at repairs needed to ageing school buildings, said Mr Lecornu, who demanded ministers send in their first proposals by the end of October.
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But finding spare cash will be difficult.
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The protests have piled pressure on a government trying to narrow a ballooning budget deficit as investor concerns about France's growing debt pile, weak growth and reluctance to rein in spending push bond yields higher.
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