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World📡 New York TimesBy Ségolène Le Stradic and Mark LandlerOct 2, 2026👁 0 views

Blockades, Fireworks and Tear Gas: Young Protesters Are Rattling France

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Blockades, Fireworks and Tear Gas: Young Protesters Are Rattling France

Days of unrest have affected more than 1,000 schools across France as high school students push for better standards.

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    Student protests against teacher shortages and overcrowding kept hundreds of schools shut across France on Friday as officials warned that the demonstrations had descended into “urban violence.”CreditCredit...Abdul Saboor/Reuters

    Reporting from Seine-St.-Denis, France

    Oct. 2, 2026

    Outside a high school in Seine-St.-Denis, a working-class suburb north of Paris, a crowd of about 100 students milled in the street on Thursday afternoon, their shouts echoing through the towering apartment buildings. They were protesting overcrowded classrooms, crumbling facilities and absent teachers.

    “We’re skipping lessons so we can teach you one,” said a banner they had hung from the fence of Rosa Parks High School. Two dozen police officers looked on as the students chatted and chanted, though the officers largely kept their distance.

    Seine-St.-Denis is at the center of a protest movement that has swept across France in the last week. Thousands of students have blockaded schools and clashed with police officers, resulting in 3,000 arrests as well as injuries to nearly 400 police officers and more than 230 school employees and students. On Thursday, Rosa Parks was one of more than 1,000 schools with protests; 220 were blockaded, according to the French Interior Ministry.

    “Classrooms are not ventilated, and we can barely open the windows,” said Issam Makhloufi, 15, a student at Rosa Parks, which is named after the American civil rights icon.

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    Students faced off with riot police officers in Seine-St.-Denis on Thursday. Some protests have passed peacefully, but others have led to clashes.Credit...Abdul Saboor/Reuters

    There is an echo of that struggle in the protests in Seine-St.-Denis, where the hardships of its immigrant population — the highest per capita of any district in France — have long drawn accusations of discrimination and inequities in schooling and other social services.

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