Student protests in France

Recent reporting on student protests involving France.

• Why have France’s school protests become a wider political crisis?

  Al Jazeera

  The demonstrations have united students and ‘yellow vest’ supporters, exposing deeper anger over living standards.

• Paris left reeling as student-led protests turn chaotic

  Al Jazeera

  Some 1,800 people arrested and hundreds injured during nationwide demonstrations attended by hundreds of thousands.

• Clashes and fires break out as protesters rally across France, joining students

  The Hindu

  Police fired tear gas and water cannons to push back people wearing hoods and masks and throwing fireworks, paving stones and other objects at officers in the Place de la République, northeast of the Paris city centre

• French unions say 480,000 people took part in pro-student protests

  The Hindu

  French authorities have not yet given their own estimate for the demonstrations

• Revealed: French police used UK-funded 4x4 vehicles to charge student protesters

  The Guardian

  French government launches investigation into why cars funded by UK to prevent asylum seekers crossing Channel were used in school protests French police have used 4x4 vehicles paid for by British taxpayers to charge at student protesters during the school protests that have swept the country. The French government has confirmed that an investigation has been launched into why the cars, funded by the UK government specifically to prevent asylum seekers crossing the Channel, were used during a pr

• France shaken by fiery street protests uniting students, workers and 'yellow vests'

  CBC News

• Protesters across France rally over rising living costs, joining students' grievances

  The Korea Times

  PARIS — Protesters across France called for street demonstrations Saturday against rising living costs, joining high school students' grievances over education conditions after more than three weeks of school blockades. Saturday’s mobilization follows calls on social media to revive the yellow vest movement , which emerged in 2018 against social injustice. Student groups protesting since mid-September have urged supporters to join. The CGT, one of France’s major labor unions, also backs the prot

• France students plan fresh protests as UN flags concern over violence

  The Hindu

  The students have complained of absent teachers, overloaded timetables, dilapidated classrooms and buildings that cannot cope with rising temperatures

• France suspends use of stun grenades to police student protests

  The Hindu

  Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said he had ordered the suspension of the use of stun grenades following an incident in the northern city of Lens on Monday (October 5, 2026) in which there was a “strong possibility” the firing of a stun grenade had caused a teenager to lose his hand

• Teenager loses hand picking up grenade in France school protests

  The Hindu

  France has been shaken by a wave of demonstrations by teenage students at high schools, or lycees, since late September demanding better classroom conditions

• French police accused over war-like injuries to teenagers in school protests

  The Guardian

  Four children allegedly ‘mutilated’ by explosive weapons and lawyers say unprecedented number held in custody French lawyers and rights groups have said that several teenagers have suffered war-like injuries from police weapons used during school protests, and an unprecedented number of children have been held in police custody, some of whom reported being hit or racially insulted. France is in the fourth week of its biggest youth protest movement in decades, during which hundreds of high school

• Hundreds of schools to shut on October 5 as student protests rock France

  The Hindu

  The teenagers at French high schools, known as lycees, say that their studies are being ruined by high teacher absence rates, overlong school days and dilapidated facilities, as well as other grievances