France In Crisis as "Youths" Set Fire to Schools, Cars, and... People

Macron has declared a crisis and gathered his advisors to figure out how to stop the riots.

So many Doctors and Engineers are taking part in them!

France's intelligence agencies briefed a government crisis meeting on Thursday that a wave ​of student protests, sometimes violent, that has swept across the country was initiated by hard-left politicians, a person close to the prime minister ‌said.

The protests against teacher shortages and dilapidated school buildings erupted in the Paris region last month but have turned increasingly violent as they spread nationwide, with dozens injured and with police making hundreds of arrests.

Student protesters started fires in at least two high schools, while teachers were inadvertently splashed with petrol at a third in the southern city of Marseille, officials said. At least one car ​was torched in Strasbourg in the east and riot police clashed with youths in Toulouse in the southwest.

Inadvertently splashed with gas?

Are you sure about that?

Other sources, like Fox, say that the teachers were "doused" with gas -- but do not claim this dousing was "inadvertent," as the corrupt communist Hamas-aligned Reuters does.

Are they mind-reading? Do they employ pre-cogs?

France 24 video report here. They feature students complaining that they were roughed up by cops trying to stop the riots. They're not so upset by the riots and arsons themselves.

The riots are coordinated by the far left party, LFI, "Le France Insoumise" or "France Unbowed."

So this is once again a Red-Green Alliance between the far left communists and Islamists.

Reports say over 350 high schools and about 30 university campuses were affected by the movement on Thursday alone. RFI reported 83 police and gendarmes were wounded today, with 119 students and school staffers injured since the start of unrest last week.

Reuters reported the principal of Marseille's Victor Hugo high school was doused in gasoline and injured, while two other principals were injured in attacks in Rouen and Petit-Quevilly. Police used tear gas in several cities, with Reuters reporting students accusing authorities of heavy‑handed tactics. Meanwhile, authorities are warning of "urban violence" and attempted arson at multiple schools.

The protests coincide with the government announcing a series of unpopular spending cuts in its 2027 budget two weeks ago and have become a political flashpoint at a ​sensitive moment for the French government.

Interior Minister Laurent Nunez told Reuters that, "in certain places, there were individuals acting as agitators -- people who moved from one school to another to stir up high school and other students and incite them to commit acts of violence." Education Minister Edouard Geffray called for schools to hold classes remotely if protesters were blocking their premises, posting on X: "Violence will not keep our students from their fundamental right to ​an education."

Senior Envoy to Europe at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies Simone Rodan-Benzaquen told Fox News Digital, "The students' grievances about missing teachers and deteriorating schools were real at first. But dousing a principal in gasoline and attacking firefighters are acts of extreme violence. What makes this politically significant is the effort to turn frustration over schools into a much broader confrontation with the government."

The Associated Press reported the protests are quickly blowing up as a hot topic in the election campaign to replace President Emmanuel Macron next May. Far-left presidential hopeful Jean-Luc Mélenchon has decried the government response to the protests as repressive. Critics have accused his party, La France Insoumise, (LFI), of seeking to use the unrest to score points in the presidential campaign and of inciting violence.

Rodan-Benzaquen says the LFI has "actively supported the mobilization. Activists circulate footage of clashes, party accounts amplify it and elected officials present themselves as the students' defenders." With an election next year, she said, "Mélenchon sees these mobilizations as a way to consolidate young voters and marginalize the moderate left. At a time of deep political, geopolitical and economic challenges, this is a very dangerous situation for France."

The immigrant mayor of Saint-Denis -- one of the most "sensitive zones" in France and a major site of the riots -- actually joined with the rioters, dancing with them.

Third world people bring third world problems:

Students generally -- not just immigrants -- have claimed solidarity with students from the "suburbs," aka banlieus, aka migrant ghettos. These students are complaining mostly about bullshit stuff like "the school day is too long" (actually it is long, I think they said 9 to 6) and that they don't want their future decided by an "algorithm." That's just a complaint that selective colleges use grades and test scores to evaluate applicants. They're basically complaining that they don't want to be judged on their actual performance and aptitude, which is a very left-wing complaint.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:33 PM

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