🇫🇷 French police have left protesters with injuries that human rights lawyers told outlets compare to those seen in conflict zones, as a student uprising over crumbling schools and the cost of living enters its fifth week.
Over Saturday and Sunday alone, French outlets StreetPress, Index and ViolencesPolicières(dot)fr collected several hundred videos and testimonies. Cases they documented include:
🔸 A 17-year-old in Saint-Étienne whose hand was torn off by a police grenade
🔸 A 17-year-old girl in Mulhouse who lost the sight in her left eye after being hit by a tear gas grenade
🔸 Protesters in Paris, Lyon, Strasbourg and Besançon beaten with batons and kicked while on the ground, including one held in a chokehold
France's police watchdog has opened at least 36 investigations into police violence against high school protesters. Christophe Calvao, president of the Paris Young Lawyers' Union, denounced "an increasingly systematic use of crowd-control measures that would normally be reserved for much more serious situations."
Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez has said police "must be able to use all intermediate weapons," and on Tuesday vowed to "step up" for the next mobilization. France Unbowed leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon said his party and unions know how to keep marches peaceful by deploying hundreds of volunteers, adding: "We could at least expect police to do something other than fire indiscriminately into the crowd."
Melenchon also noted that most European countries ban such grenades, and that Nuñez suspended them only to reinstate them "not even 48 hours" later.
🎥 Edited by @samivanderlip. (Compilation of videos circulating online).
You are witnessing a western government’s fascist domestic army attack its civilian population.
The uprising against the elite ruining this world is coming.
Face à la résistance populaire persistante, la police a lancé une offensive intense pour disperser les manifestants.
Face à la résistance populaire persistante, la police a lancé une offensive intense pour disperser les manifestants.
#17octobre2026#manifestation#paris#Franc #BlocusLycées
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#OnThisDay in 2022
A ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ performance away at Wolves
Four shots
Four goals
⚽️ Tielemans
⚽️ Barnes
⚽️ Maddison
⚽️ Vardy
The celebration from Vardy at the end 🥹
The government's antisemitism in schools report is a travesty.
It's riddled with errors, distortions and contradictions.
And it will be used to silence people over Palestine 👇
https://t.co/ryc1lrCWQp
Around 3% of Muslim children attend full-time Islamic schools. Roughly 70% of Jewish children attend Jewish schools.
Yet only Muslims are constantly lectured about “integration”.
Funny that.
29 students.
That's the total number of Jewish students in the Bell report who said they've experienced antisemitism.
29.
Meanwhile, 30 Palestinians have been reported murdered by Israel in the past 10 days.
9 million students in the UK
50k are Jewish
37k go to Jewish only schools
We are all being fucked over to avoid the delicate sensitivities of a few thousand people because ISRAEL IS COMMITTING GENOCIDE IN PALESTINE.
What the hell is happening here?