Rioters in France have been engaging in violent protests for over two weeks, burning schools, vandalizing storefronts, and assaulting teachers. The unrest began after a teacher strike on September 17 and has since spread to 40 cities, with 891 schools closed at least one day. Approximately 7,000 rioters have been arrested, more than 700 police officers injured, and over 100 teachers assaulted, including two who were targeted with gasoline. Despite these incidents, French leaders are downplaying the role of mass migration and cultural integration issues, attributing the unrest to budget cuts instead. The article highlights an emerging red-green alliance in France, combining left-wing politics with Islamist ideology, which is also gaining strength in America but has not yet led to similar levels of violence.
Written locally by qwen2.5:14b on 2026-10-11,
using this article's own text rather than the other coverage of the
same event (that is the story summary below).
Rioters in France who have been burning schools, vandalizing storefronts, and assaulting teachers for over two weeks do not carry that country’s tricolor flag but the flags of Algeria, Morocco, and Palestine.
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who → burn → Algeria
But when President Donald Trump said what is obviously true and blamed the mayhem on mass migration, France’s leaders reacted by pretending that this latest display of unassimilated alien violence was about spending cuts.
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display → say → cuts
Ignoring the growing strength of the red-green — left-Islamist — alliance is foolhardy.
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Ignoring → ignore → alliance
Its growing strength must be faced rather than glossed over with facile falsehoods.
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strength → grow → falsehoods
The same alliance is gathering strength here in America, where it is just as extreme but has not yet reached the levels of violence on hideous display in Europe this month.
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it → gather → Europe
The latest violence in France began about a week after teachers went on strike on Sept. 17 to protest what they claim is understaffing at a high school in the Paris suburbs.
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they → begin → suburbs
Students joined the protests, and by Sept. 24, the protests had turned violent, with students assaulting the teachers they were supposedly supporting and burning the schools at which they supposedly wished to be educated.
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they → join → which
Violence has spread to 40 cities, 7,000 rioters have been arrested, 891 schools have been shut down for at least one day, more than 700 police officers have been injured, more than 100 teachers have been assaulted, and 24 schools have been burned or vandalized.
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schools → spread → day
Two teachers were splashed with gasoline.
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teachers → splash → gasoline
One rioter attacked a passerby with a makeshift flamethrower when she tried to stop the vandalism of a bus shelter.
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she → attack → shelter
Nevertheless, leaders of France’s socialist party, La France Insoumise, sided with the rioters.
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leaders → side → rioters
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the party’s leader and founder, blamed the attacks on police and racist oppression.
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Mélenchon → blame → police
Bally Bagayoko, the ethnic Malian Muslim mayor of the Paris suburb where the violence started, stoked further unrest by commenting that “violence can sometimes be legitimate.”
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violence → start → unrest
In the United States, some people ignore the link between Muslim mass migration and the chaos unfolding on the streets of France.
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people → ignore → France
One supposedly conservative outlet penned an entire editorial about the riots without mentioning Islam or immigration.
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outlet → pen → Islam
It is true that France’s bloated welfare state is relevant to these events, for France spends nearly three-fifths of its budget on welfare, pensions, and healthcare, compared to 10% on education.
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France → spend → education
This profligate spending has pushed France’s debt-to-GDP ratio to 120%, and its budget deficit is about 5.4% of GDP.
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deficit → push → GDP
But this is not the first time France’s streets have burned under the banner of foreign flags.
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streets → burn → flags
Three years ago, in another suburb of Paris, after a 17-year-old of Algerian descent was killed during a routine traffic stop, the resultant riots caused nearly €1 billion in damage and led to over 4,000 arrests, 1,000 injuries, and two deaths.
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riots → kill → arrests
At the height of the rioting, a masked young man trying to burn a French flag was filmed shouting, “Wallah, nique la France,” which translates to “I swear to God, f*** France.”
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I → try → France
It is safe to say he was not protesting soaring yields on French 10-year bonds.
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he → say → bonds
The alliance between the radical left and Muslim political activists is spreading across the West.
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alliance → spread → West
In Britain, Muslim Vote has backed Green and Workers Party candidates.
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Vote → back → candidates
In the Netherlands, Rotterdam’s Socialist Party signed a joint electoral manifesto with the Islam-inspired NIDA party in 2018 and stood by the agreement even after other left-wing partners withdrew after NIDA compared Israel to the Islamic State.
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NIDA → sign → State
Both hate the West, the heir of Christendom, with its successful market economies.
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Both → hate → economies
They are working for its downfall, though there is less agreement on what should replace it.
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what → work → it
France and Britain have Mélenchon, Bagayoko, and Zarah Sultana, but the United States has Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D), and Michigan Senate candidate Abdul el Sayed (D).
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States → have → Sanders
France’s burning schools should be a warning to Americans.
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schools → burn → Americans
An alliance built on shared hostility to the West can gain power even when its partners disagree about the ideal policies they would impose.
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they → build → policies
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