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French Unrest: Are we witnessing a new 'Yellow Vests' movement?

It's been 18 days since we first reported on isolated cases of schools protests at a high school in Rennes in Brittany, in Caen in Normandy and Villeneueve d'Asque on the suburbs of Lille. The complaints were similar in theme, overloaded timetables, staffing problems, poor facilities. It spread to Saint Denis and Creteil on the outskirts of Paris days later, one interview with the students was sen 1.4 million times on TikTok. It gathered pace, and morphed into what we've seen throughout the week, hundreds of protests, some peaceful, some with deeply distressing scenes, beyond the make shift ba

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France: Anti-Ripost Protests · Global Voices

In Caen, demonstrators protested on Sunday, 20 September, against the bill to establish a presumption of self-defence for police and gendarmes. Adopted at first reading by the National Assembly on 7 July, the text provides that officers are presumed to have acted legally when using their weapon, unless proven otherwise. Opponents of the draft report a risk of weakening control over the use of weapons by law enforcement.