Police in Paris have fired tear gas during the latest anti-government protests in Frnance as more than 300,000 people march across the country.
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people → fire → country
Huge crowds have again taken to the streets for a third consecutive weekend of nationwide demonstrations, with authorities bracing for violence after nightfall.
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authorities → take → nightfall
Demonstrations are also taking place in a number of cities in Germany and Albania.
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Demonstrations → take → Germany
Around 70,000 police officers and gendarmes have been deployed across France, with Saturday’s marches pushed away from central boulevards to the outer fringes of major cities.
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marches → deploy → cities
French interior minister Laurent Nuñez has warned of a “very high risk” of coordinated disorder, cautioning that Halloween will not be accepted as an excuse to wear masks or trigger street violence.
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Halloween → warn → violence
The mobilisations follow two weekends of unrest that have seen widespread rioting, looting, arson, and mass arrests across the country.
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that → follow → country
At Porte de Bagnolet, on the eastern edge of Paris, several thousand people have gathered on Saturday afternoon behind a line of high school students leading the march hand in hand.
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people → gather → hand
Stewards from the CGT union kept watch at the front of the procession, while riot police lined adjacent side streets.
Among those on the march was 21-year-old university student Corentin Cabreux, who said squalid conditions in student housing forced him to turn out.
“I live in a state-run student residence where there are damp stains all along the bottom of my walls, whole sections peeling off, cockroaches everywhere, rats,” he said.
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he → keep → walls
Mr Cabreux added that he hoped the turnout would remain peaceful to counter government depictions of the movement as mere cover for rioting.
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turnout → add → rioting
In recent weeks, police crowd-control tactics have drawn fierce criticism from trade unions and legal monitors following the repeated use of tear gas, water cannon and dispersion grenades.
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tactics → draw → gas
Anger mounted earlier this month after a 15-year-old student had their hand blown off after picking up an explosive stun grenade.
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hand → mount → grenade
While France previously suspended the use of stun grenades for student rallies, Mr Nuñez confirmed that all intermediate crowd-control weapons remain authorised if officers face targeted assaults.
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officers → suspend → assaults
Mass protests in the country began last month when secondary school pupils walked out over staff shortages, deteriorating school buildings and a university admissions system seen as unfair to disadvantaged students.
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pupils → begin → students
The movement has since widened into a broader challenge to Emmanuel Macron’s government, drawing in trade unions and left-wing groups opposing economic reforms.
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movement → widen → reforms
In an effort to prevent a repeat of previous evening unrest, the president ordered marches kept out of central commercial districts.
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president → prevent → districts
In Paris, police have barred access to Place de la République and Les Halles between 23:00 and 06:00, while unaccompanied minors face a 21:00 curfew around the Champs-Élysées.
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minors → bar → Élysées
The unrest in France is part of a widening pattern of youth discontent across Europe.
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unrest → widen → Europe
In Albania, violent clashes between young demonstrators and riot police have now entered their second week in the capital, Tirana, over soaring food prices, low wages and university fees.
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clashes → enter → prices
On Friday, officers fired tear gas after government and education ministries were pelted with stones and pyrotechnics, leaving dozens detained and scores of protesters and police injured.
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scores → fire → protesters
In Italy, riot units remain on high alert across Milan, Turin and Bologna following recent clashes between student groups and law enforcement, with calls for fresh demonstrations circulating widely on TikTok over precarious job contracts and rising university costs.
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calls → remain → contracts
In Germany, the youth campaign “Gen Z regelt” (“Gen Z’s got this”) has called for demonstrations across roughly 30 cities, demanding funding for education, healthcare and climate protection, while opposing any return to military conscription.
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’s → ’ → conscription
Berlin police are expecting around 10,000 people at the Brandenburg Gate, while luxury retailers along the Kurfürstendamm boulevard have boarded up display windows ahead of the evening.
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retailers → expect → evening
In Spain, regional police in Catalonia have activated their highest emergency alert in Barcelona after an anonymous TikTok network called Blocus urged fresh gatherings.
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network → activate → gatherings
T
he alert follows rioting last Saturday that resulted in roughly 130 arrests, mostly of minors, prompting officers to seal off access routes to major commercial districts.
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that → follow → districts
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