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“Some half a million people turned out across France to protest the surging cost of living, a culmination of four weeks of protests that began with high school students demanding better conditions at their schools.”

“Saturday’s protests had seen unions, the anti-Macron Yellow Vests movement that ruffled the early years of his presidency and school students, who had protested for the last weeks, join forces in a show of anger at the cost of living and prospects for young…”

“French police used teargas and made arrests as violence erupted in Paris and other cities before planned demonstrations called for Saturday across the country by groups including the so-called Yellow Vests movement.”

“The spark was the student protest over high school conditions but the tinder is broad dissatisfaction on the left with the political status quo, not to mention fears over the prospect of a far right government next year.”

“…alling for this mobilisation” in what was surely a thinly veiled reference to French leftists who have distributed guides on how to blockade universities and schools, as well as the socialist France Unbowed party, who have been accused of fueling the…”

“PARIS, France — French students set fire to bins and erected blockades outside schools in several cities, protesting overcrowded classrooms, teacher shortages and crumbling facilities.”

“A 15-year-old student lost a hand on Monday picking up a police grenade as part of nationwide protests in France over classroom conditions that have disrupted lessons at hundreds of schools since last week.”