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“French officials have opened an investigation into the attempted murder of a police officer and Germany’s interior minister has called for harsh penalties after peaceful and mainly youth-led protests across Europe ended in violence.”

“Clashes have erupted in Paris, Marseille and other cities after tens of thousands of demonstrators, some in Halloween fancy dress, marched across France in a third wave of protests over the cost of living and deteriorating public services.”

“The mouvement lycéen has spread from a single campus in a Parisian suburb to include high schoolers and university students nationwide, with public sector workers, climate activists, labor unions and everyday people joining in solidarity.”

“But Felix Banaszak, the co-leader of the opposition Green party, cautioned against attempts to place the youth protests under general suspicion in advance.”

“Street protests sweeping Europe are expected to spread to Germany and reignite in France on Saturday, with police mobilised to stop potential looting and rioting on the fringes of what organisers hope will be peaceful rallies.”

“From early morning in Paris and its suburbs, as well as in cities including Lille, Toulouse and Marseille, schoolchildren demanding more replacement teachers and repairs to buildings barricaded school entrances with wheelie bins.”

“What happens in the secretive inner councils in Tehran, the mountains of south-west Yemen, the steppe of the Donbas, the still bloody wasteland that is Gaza and even the elegant boulevards of Paris and Milan have a common thread.”

“Hundreds of thousands marched in cities across France on Saturday in largely peaceful protests to support schoolchildren’s demands for more teachers and repairs to dilapidated buildings, as Emmanuel Macron faces a social and political crisis in his final…”

“All through the night in neighbourhoods in the centre and east of Paris, the sound of sawing, drilling and hammering rang out as wooden boards were hastily secured into place to cover windows and shop-fronts.”

“But requests for rallies in Paris organised by France’s main student union, UNEF, and the gilets jaunes movement, whose nationwide protests rocked France in 2018 and which plans 600 small-scale events around France on Saturday, were refused.”

“Donald Trump and JD Vance deployed a familiar US playbook on Europe, claiming that immigrants were responsible for rioting in France that began as student protests against crumbling schools and the high cost of living.”

“France protests escalate with riots, looting and 2,400 arrests – The Latest Last weekend there were mass protests across France, with more than half a million people estimated to have been involved.”

“JD Vance, the vice-president, escalated the inflammatory attacks at an event in Howell, Michigan, on Tuesday, during which he sought to connect El-Sayed’s politics to violent leftwing protests in Paris that saw thousands arrested.”

“From Porto to Paris and Madrid to Milan, analysts have pointed to the common thread that weaves through the diverse protests: a view that the social contract has broken down, leaving younger generations bracing for a future in which they will be worse off…”

“Speaking to the crowd in Howell, Michigan, Vance sought to connect El-Sayed’s politics to the leftwing protests in Paris that have led to thousands of arrests.”

“Vance, who has traded words for months with El-Sayed online and at campaign rallies, connected the progressive candidate to recent mass protests in Paris, accusing El-Sayed of endorsing similar unrest in the United States.”

“… president, who leaves office next spring, has faced more than a month of protests in which high-school students have blockaded schools demanding a response to teacher absences, repairs to decrepit buildings and changes to the university applications…”

“The NFL would have cancelled its first regular-season game in Paris, scheduled for Sunday, if the situation were unsafe, Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers said on Friday, referring to the recent protests in the French capital.”

“Emmanuel Macron has condemned racism in French society after a gunman opened fire from a car west of Paris on Friday, killing one person, wounding a 12-year-old girl and injuring four others in what the president called a “racist terrorist attack”.”

“From Rome to Athens, Madrid and Paris, young people are venting their anger over the lack of resources in schools as well as wider housing and cost-of-living concerns.”

“As waves of youth-led protests swell across Europe, prompted by the cost of living, unaffordable housing and education standards, in Serbia the younger generation is taking on the apparatus of the state itself.”

“Jesse Watters played clips of protests of violence in France on Monday, announcing that the goal is “to replace communism with capitalism”.”

“The Malaysian embassy in Paris had on Sunday advised Malaysians in France “to exercise caution and remain vigilant” due to the protests.”

“Alemanno, a professor of EU law at the HEC business school in Paris, said he had received an unprecedented number of calls from right-wing, xenophobic outlets in recent days, many of them seeking to fuel the idea of the protests as some sort of “pan-European…”

“…he has asked regional authorities to impose partial curfews in some cities after the government admitted police had “lost control” in several places during violent weekend protests around the country. - UK politics | Andy Burnham has told officials to rip up…”

“Volunteer sign-ups doubled to about 100 a week after the Hugging Face incident and soared to 681 in the week of Coxon’s “kill us all” warning, when PauseAI organised protests in Paris, London and Berlin.”