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Tens of thousands of people are expected to protest across France on Saturday, as students, trade unionists and remnants of the Yellow Vest movement join forces to demonstrate against high prices and the country's fraying social model.
Students, trade unionists and Yellow Vest activists are taking to French streets to protest high prices and inequality. Police and protesters have already clashed in Paris and Marseille.
French police used tear gas and batons to try to drive protesters from the streets in Paris, Marseille and Lyon as demonstrators staged unsanctioned marches and tried to block traffic with impromptu barricades Saturday. Tens of thousands of people are expected to demonstrate across France as students, trade union members and remnants of the Yellow Vest movement join forces to protest rising cost of living. Follow our liveblog for the latest updates.
An online movement against rising fuel prices has gained momentum ahead of planned nationwide demonstrations on October 17 with former Yellow Vest figures set to join the protests in support of high-school students. Some are drawing parallels between the latest action and the 2018 cost-of-living protests that rattled President Emmanuel Macron's first term in office.
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After weeks of student protests, France is set to be swept by broader, nationwide demonstrations on Saturday. The country's Yellow Vest movement – which eight years ago staged street protests against President Emmanuel Macron – has appealed to teachers, workers, pensioners and farmers, as well as students, in an online call spread through social media. The prospect of the two movements merging poses a big challenge to the government, as FRANCE 24’s Shirli Sitbon reports.
An online movement against rising fuel prices has gained momentum ahead of planned nationwide demonstrations on October 17 with former Yellow Vest figures set to join the protests in support of high-school students. Some are drawing parallels between the latest action and the 2018 cost-of-living protests that rattled President Emmanuel Macron's first term in office.
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As student protests converge with broader public discontent over the rising cost of living in France, Genie Godula is joined by Sébastien Vieille, national secretary of the SNALC teachers’ union. He offers an assessment of a movement confronting political uncertainty, deteriorating school infrastructure and mounting fiscal constraints. Speaking from Montbéliard in eastern France, Vieille questions whether alliances with larger protest movements, including the Yellow Vests, will strengthen students’ demands or ultimately make them "less visible".
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France's prime minister has suggested that student anger is being weaponised, as the unions and other protesters prepare to take to the streets too.
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