'We're not asking for luxury': School protesters in a Paris suburb feel abandoned by the French state
On a typical school day, 17-year-old Mohammed wakes up at 6am to help his single mother, a security guard, care…
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Angry French students are protesting in the streets. British students are not – and I think I know why | Kitty Sayers
Young British people have plenty to be angry about: crushing student debt, private-school privilege, and a housing market they can’t…
French ministers are rushing to calm students after 10 days of protests.
High school students have once again blockaded schools and marched through cities across France, vowing to continue their campaign against…
'Nobody is listening to us': on the school protest frontline, I heard why France's students feel abandoned | Alexander Hurst
When teenagers protest that the government is failing to uphold their right to education, and the government responds by sending…
I see what's happening in Paris: reasonable student demands are being met with terrible violence | Helen Massy-Beresford
It’s hard to argue that the demands of France’s protesting high school students are unreasonable or not worth taking to…
Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets in France, blocking schools.
Nearly 90,000 students, staff, and parents took to the streets in cities across France as protesters blockaded hundreds of high…
A 15-year-old schoolboy lost his hand after picking up a police stun grenade during school protests in France.
Hundreds of schools in France were fully or partly closed on Monday as teenagers continued to blockade buildings, and the…
'We swept a lot under the carpet': Vichy regime film strikes a chord in France of 2026
This is the story of how an ordinary state administrator unknowingly becomes part of an authoritarian regime’s machinery, embracing the…
Fires, anger, and hundreds of arrests as student protests grip France
Dozens of students sat on a pile of wheelie bins blocking the entrance to a high school in north-eastern Paris.…
Who are the 514 people accused of starting wildfires in France, and what are their motives?
One is a 15-year-old boy who threw a lit cigarette into a wood near Bordeaux. Another is a 36-year-old man…