Lost rights are never regained by appeals to the conscience of the usurpers, but by relentless struggle...Goats are used for sacrificial offerings and not lions
63-year-old Kevin Rees has been jailed for 15 years after blowing up a ULEZ camera in south-east London using a homemade bomb.
The explosion damaged cars and property up to 100 metres away, including a child’s bedroom. Shrapnel was fired through a passing car, and a bus narrowly avoided the blast.
The judge found the offence had a “terrorism connection”. He was also sentenced to three years for possessing three homemade stun guns, to run concurrently.
🇫🇷 France’s latest riots didn’t come out of nowhere. They started with angry high school students and years of frustration over the state of their schools.
For about a week, teenagers aged 15 to 18 have been blockading lycées over teacher shortages, overcrowded classes, exhausting schedules and buildings they say are literally falling apart.
Students have described classes of around 35, leaking ceilings, broken toilets and missing basic supplies. At some schools, they’ve reported rats and cockroaches.
What began around Paris quickly spread across the country, from Lille and Nantes to Lyon, Toulouse, Marseille and Strasbourg.
Then it escalated.
Bins and barricades were torched, school entrances damaged and riot police deployed. Actual school-building fires were reported in places including Nantes and Rouen.
Marseille saw some of the ugliest scenes, but the details matter.
At Victor Hugo, two teachers were splashed with petrol while a student tried to throw it into a rubbish bin. Prosecutors initially described it as an assault and dousing, but local authorities later said the splash itself was inadvertent.
At Saint-Exupéry, hundreds of youths surrounded firefighters responding to a blaze outside the school, forced them away from their fire engine, and then set the truck alight.
Yesterday showed just how big this has become.
The Interior Ministry said 1,949 people were detained in a single day, 305 police officers and gendarmes were injured, and 1,027 of France’s roughly 3,700 high schools were affected.
The Guardian reports that nearly 3,000 lycée students have been detained since the movement began, while university students have now joined in, blocking access to around 30 campuses.
And now there’s a second fight over who is actually driving all of this.
According to a source close to Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu, intelligence services told a government crisis meeting that the movement began as an operation organized by Mélenchon’s France Unbowed and its allies on the far left.
LFI rejects that, saying it supports non-violent protest and accusing the government of turning genuine anger among students into a political battle.
France has just unveiled a 2027 budget built around major fiscal tightening.
Education funding itself is set to rise by about €1.2 billion, but the plan also removes 1,588 permanent teaching positions, which the government says reflects falling student numbers.
So underneath the burning bins, riot police and viral footage is a much bigger argument about the condition of French schools, how much money they need, and whether students have been ignored for too long.
France has a long tradition of taking its anger to the streets.
This time, a lot of the people behind the barricades still have homework due Monday.
Sources: Reuters, BBC, CNN, The Guardian, Le Monde / Writer: Julie
France, 2026.
Kids ask for teachers, books and schools that aren't falling apart.
The state sends riot police.
440 detained. A schoolboy in Tours shot in the face with a rubber bullet. He may lose his eye.
That's France's answer to children who want better education.
Isn't it time to hold a UN Security Council meeting?
If these events had happened in Iran, France would have requested a Security Council meeting and drafted new sanctions with Germany and the UK against Iran!
Risquer de perdre son oeil parce qu'on est un jeune qui défend ses droits.
Ça ne devrait jamais arriver.
Mais ça se passe dans un lycée à Tours sous la France de Macron. Honte absolue aux donneurs d'ordre. Ces violences inouïes doivent cesser immédiatement.
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Robert Jenrick is chasing a guy who stole a bottle of Coke worth about £2, but this is the same Robert Jenrick who helped his mate avoid paying £40 million in tax when he was Housing Secretary.
104 Iranian sailors, many in their late teens, unarmed, thousands of miles away at a training event with other nations.
Their final words to the US warship that slaughtered them "we are unarmed".
The law of armed conflict states survivors to be recused - the US ignored this.
Nearly 400 French high schools have been closed, many have been damaged, and dozens of people, including teachers and students, have been injured after student protests turned violent.
Nearly 3,000 teenagers have been detained since the protests began, including 1,949 yesterday alone.
The students were protesting against overcrowded classrooms, crumbling infrastructure, exhausting schedules and extreme classroom temperatures during heatwaves.
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Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and a top US negotiator for the Middle East, has been found to hold a significant stake in an Israeli firm investing in companies supporting Israel’s military, according to a CNN report.
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@clashreport Without the ICC, there is basically no such thing as international law. The purposeful weakening of the ICC by the USA & Israel has enabled genocides around the globe.