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Unrest across France sparked by the police shooting of a 17-year-old appeared to slow overnight after six consecutive nights of violence.. There were 157 arrests overnight, down from a peak of ...
The 2024 French protests against the far-right (French: Manifestations de 2024 contre l'extrême droite en France), also known as the anti-National Rally protests, was protests that began on 9 June 2024 in response to the National Rally (RN) party's victory in the 2024 European Parliament election and the resulting dissolution of parliament and snap elections called by French President ...
May 1, 2024 at 12:44 PM. PARIS (Reuters) - French police said they arrested 45 people in Paris and that 12 officers had been injured during traditional May Day protests on Wednesday, though the ...
Numbers of demonstrators vary. The Interior Ministry said up to 1.08m took part in protests across France, with 119,000 in Paris; the latter is the highest number to have protested in Paris since the strikes and protests related to the reforms began in January. The CGT union, meanwhile, claimed 3.5m nationwide, and 800,000 in Paris. [138]
With the protests in Paris having raised tensions the previous week, the Interior Ministry agreed to allow a gathering on 24 November at the Champ de Mars. [150] The protests attracted 106,000 people all across France, [151] only 8,000 of whom were in Paris, where the protests turned violent. Protesters lit fires in the streets, tore down signs ...
PARIS (AP) — Families, community groups and far-left activists marched in cities around France on Saturday to decry racism and police brutality, putting authorities on edge at a time when French ...
16 October. The first demonstrations occurred on 16 October 2022, when tens of thousands of people marched in Paris to protest the rising cost of living, during an increasing political situation manifested by strikes at oil refineries and nuclear power plants that threatened to spread. [7] Annie Ernaux, winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in ...
PARIS (Reuters) -A demonstration against police violence in Paris on Saturday saw some clashes between protesters and police in what French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin called "unacceptable ...