Violence has returned to the streets of France today as far-Left protesters lead clashes with police amid warnings that demonstrators have been told to “bring knives” and “stab civilians”. The Mail has more.
In Paris, police were seen using tear gas and pepper spray on protesters in the centre of the capital city. Riot cops covered in body armour used shields and batons to push back demonstrators.
Over in Rennes, police used water cannon against protesters who had taken to the streets.
French newspaper Le Parisien reported that some inciters are telling their Snapchat followers to “bring knives” and “stab civilians in the crowd” outside the Couffignal high school in Strasbourg.
Police sources told the newspaper that they had received reports concerning potential violence during blockades outside schools in the French city.
Students are set to be joined by tens of thousands of demonstrators as France’s powerful trade unions will join far-Left student protests.
Authorities are expecting some 20,000 to 40,000 demonstrators in Paris today, while they added that nearly 90,000 protesters took to the streets of the rest of the country.
Weeks of pupil blockades protesting against failing school conditions have in recent days escalated into violent clashes with police across hundreds of campuses.
Students have walked out complaining of missing teachers, overloaded timetables, dilapidated classrooms and buildings that cannot cope with rising temperatures.
The demonstrations quickly turned into pupils lighting dustbin fires, torching bus shelters and clashing with riot police, who have in turn responded with batons, tear gas and riot-control rounds.
At the mass march in Paris, Ryad Rani – the President of the country’s high school student union – decried the government’s “complete lack of political response”.
He said: “Today is a fight for dignity. This is serious, it’s incredibly violent; when young people rise up, the Government represses them.”
Officials said this afternoon that classes at nearly 900 schools had been either totally or partially suspended amid the nationwide protests.
Since the start of the movement, 24 schools have been burned or ransacked, according to the Education Minister.
More than 5,000 people, 87% of them minors, have been arrested. Sébastien Lecornu’s office said 85 teaching staff have also been injured.
Officials added that more than 1,800 people are being prosecuted, including 1,483 minors, without specifying the crimes, and that 790 cases had been dismissed.
The French Government says 215 students and 715 officers have been injured since the start of the movement, with a 15 year-old reportedly losing his hand on Monday when he picked up a stun grenade fired by riot police.
Footage from the scene showed several people tending to the young man as he lay on the pavement. His left hand appeared to be missing, with a bloody stump in its place.
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French riot police seem quite happy to use baton charges, tear gas, stun grenades etc. against protesters but rarely illegal immigrants on the beaches or to clear the camps around Calais.
In fairness to the French, why would they ever want to stop that calibre of men leaving their country?
A further example of diversity being our strength:
”Saint-Denis, Aubervilliers and Pantin were among the centers of the unrest in Seine-Saint-Denis, northeast of Paris. Immigrants accounted for roughly 32% of the department’s population in 2020–2021, according to national statistics agency INSEE. French-born residents with at least one immigrant parent accounted for a further 32%.”
We are very fortunate that the far-left only exists in France, and not over here in England. We have enough to worry about with the Far Right making it dangerous to go out to a pub or out in the countryside with a Labrador.
The population is getting out of control because the ruling establishment has failed miserably. They’ve neglected to do their duty which is protect the country and its borders and have wasted their time instead with pointless, useless, ultimately destructive things like climate change and ultra progressive social projects.
Now they will use their heavy hand and will probably do it all wrong again – punish the wrong people, let off people who should be locked up.
They are barely good enough to do the minimum job that is required of them. But if they insist on doing other pointless stuff instead, this is what they end up with.
Students.
Definitely not Islamic North African imports and their darker kin.
No, it’s definitely students.
Bally Bagayoko, family from Mali Africa, is an extreme left Muslim. He is also a mayor of a Paris district, seen in several videos enthusiastically encouraging his fellow Islamist to intensify the violence. The British media use euphemisms like “students” to cover up the muslim push to take over the country because they are petrified that British “students” will follow their French co-religionists and start a civil war (because that is what it is – a Civil War) in this country.
“demonstrators have been told to “bring knives” and “stab civilians”… [translation: “stab White People”]
“Ryad Rani – the President of the country’s high school student union” said:
“This is serious, it’s incredibly violent; when young people rise up, the Government represses them.”
So the “students” are egged on to violence by their MUSLIM ALGERIAN & ETHNIC INDIAN LEADER, not by the Indigenous French young people.
The Unholy Muslim-Marxist Alliance strikes again.
“…with a 15 year-old reportedly losing his hand on Monday when he picked up a stun grenade fired by riot police”
Suspect missing hand was preceded by missing brain
Britain soon?
Of course “we” condemn all violence… blah, blah, blah except for the “asylum-seeker” hags, and the vile Jew-haters.
So… mostly peaceful protests then?
{sarcasm}
Looks like it is time that people in this day and age realise that whilst the right to protest is there, the right to do so with weapons and intentionally attack people is not. Full riot gear, and do not spare the horses.
Yes… treat the symptoms not the cause.
Or, worryingly, the the people in this day and age are learning that peaceful protests will be met with studied indifference?