Why the French school riots are a taste of the chaos to come

Why the French school riots are a taste of the chaos to come

Just over a week ago, the French, inspired by the visit of Leo XIV, were apparently communing in peace and harmony. Around 800,000 turned out on the streets of central Paris to hear the Pope celebrate an open-air mass. But as the papal plane took off from Metz in north-eastern France, the last stop on Leo’s trip, France was descending into a week of chaos and violence.

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If you’re curious why the media is spreading so much false information about the riots, consider

If you’re curious why the media is spreading so much false information about the riots, consider

Read the entire thread it helps answer why Carney is hot for the European Union.

h/t Mauser

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More than 400 schools in France to be closed on Monday as more protests planned

More than 400 schools in France to be closed on Monday as more protests planned

More than 400 schools in France will be closed or partly closed on Monday as authorities brace for another week of student protests.

Lessons will be totally or partly suspended in 400 to 500 schools because security conditions “have not been fulfilled”, the education minister, Édouard Geffray, said on Sunday.

The minister said 24 schools had been burnt or ransacked and 78 education staff members injured. The number of school closures on Monday would be comparable to Friday’s but the government envisaged a “partial, progressive return to lessons”, said Geffray.

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France: A Sick Country on a Sick Continent

France: A Sick Country on a Sick Continent

“Who didn’t see that coming? Oh yeah ….the politicians,” noted “The Great Gats” on X.

The French government was reportedly “taken by surprise” when students began rioting roughly two weeks ago to protest conditions — overcrowded classes, dilapidated buildings, vermin and rats, lack of heating and air-conditioning, shortage of teachers — in their schools.

“But,” American journalist Michael Shellenberger writes, ” French schools have more money per pupil today than at any earlier time…. The French government spends 4.5% of gross domestic product on educational institutions, and Germany spends 3.7%.

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John Ivison: France is in flames and it’s a gift to the far right

John Ivison: France is in flames and it’s a gift to the far right

My eldest son landed in Paris on Thursday to begin a year teaching English there, just as the capital was gripped by student riots.

“The first thing I saw was a massive fire in the middle of the street,” James said, adding that rioters were shooting fireworks at police.

France is burning. The spark was the student protest over high school conditions but the tinder is broad dissatisfaction on the left with the political status quo, not to mention fears over the prospect of a far right government next year.


I guess the far-right guy is the one with the peaceful aerosol can flame thrower.

15 year old Gift Giver arrested

French police have arrested a 15-year-old rioter after he used a makeshift flame-thrower to burn a woman’s face.

The attack was captured on video as thousands of youngsters went on the rampage over poor conditions in their schools.

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France burns: Migration-background students rampage across the country, teachers doused in gasoline, schools set on fire, and hundreds of arrests reported

France burns: Migration-background students rampage across the country, teachers doused in gasoline, schools set on fire, and hundreds of arrests reported

Images of burning schools, buses, and vicious assaults, along with a report of attempted murder, have once again hit France this morning, Oct. 1, as high school blockades mark their second week across France. What began as protests demanding better conditions for students and teachers has devolved into violence at dozens of locations, concentrated at schools with large immigrant populations.

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Fires, fury and hundreds of arrests as France gripped by student protests

Fires, fury and hundreds of arrests as France gripped by student protests

As dozens of school pupils sat on top of a pile of wheelie bins blocking a high school entrance in north-eastern Paris, Sophia, 17, was on the frontline of the barricade, when she would normally have been attending Spanish class.

“We hope this grows into a massive youth protest movement,” said the final year baccalaureate student at Paris’s Lycée Voltaire, who did not want her real name published. She was on her second day of blocking the school entrance along with hundreds of others, ensuring all lessons were cancelled. “We just want to be listened to by the government. We’d rather stand here doing this than have to learn in poor conditions. It’s the only way to make ourselves heard.”

The French left and its Islamist allies are behind this.

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France’s establishment is struggling to stop Marine Le Pen

France’s establishment is struggling to stop Marine Le Pen

Astonishing news has arrived from France: Emmanuel Macron is dropping hints that he could run for a third term as president.

This can’t be in next year’s presidential election, because the French constitution forbids more than two consecutive terms. But he could run for a non-consecutive third term in 2032, when he’ll only be 54. It’s a sign that the French political establishment realizes it is losing the fight to stop Marine Le Pen from winning in 2027. In fact, the elites are beginning to bring Le Pen and her Right-populist National Rally (RN) party in from the cold.

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Eleven charged with murder aggravated by speech against ‘white race’ in France

Eleven charged with murder aggravated by speech against ‘white race’ in France

Eleven defendants will face trial in France after being accused of killing a 16-year-old in 2023 while engaging in speech “against the white race and the French nation,” according to a judicial order seen by POLITICO.

The death of Thomas Perotto in the village of Cr´epol quickly became a political flashpoint, with far-right figures like Eric Zemmour framing the incident as an example of the threat posed by immigrants.

h/t Patti Jo

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‘I’m not a bad guy’ – African migrant accused of raping 8-year-old girl in the French city of Brest

‘I’m not a bad guy’ – African migrant accused of raping 8-year-old girl in the French city of Brest

An African illegal migrant is accused of raping an 8-year-old girl in the French city of Brest in August 2026. He remains in pre-trial detention and has already been issued a deportation order.

The suspect is a 41-year-old man from the Comoros who lives in Le Mans without legal status and was visiting Brest. Prosecutors say the alleged attack happened in an apartment after the child’s mother had left. The girl also described a similar incident earlier in August.

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Canada, France to Develop Shared Space Launch Infrastructure

Canada, France to Develop Shared Space Launch Infrastructure

Canada and France have asked their space agencies and defense departments to develop and share infrastructure including space-launch systems, Prime Minister Mark Carney said on a visit to a French territory near Newfoundland and Labrador.

The prime minister made the announcement Sunday alongside French President Emmanuel Macron at Saint-Pierre, the capital of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, a French archipelago that sits just off Canada’s Atlantic coast. No timelines or funding commitments were disclosed.

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Man jailed after threatening to behead son’s teacher in French village

Man jailed after threatening to behead son’s teacher in French village

A man has been given a six-month jail term in France after he threatened to behead a female primary school teacher who had disciplined his son at a village primary school.

The 47-year-old was sentenced after a fast-track hearing on Thursday, six days after the events unfolded in Le Fauga, a village with a population of about 2,600 just outside the southwestern city of Toulouse.

The teacher has been granted official protection and has gone on sick leave.


You wouldn’t know the Perp was a Muslim if you relied on the BBC.

A father threatened to behead a teacher at the “Clément Ader” school in Le Fauga (Haute-Garonne) on Friday, September 4, after his son was punished. The incident caused outrage in this town of 2,800 inhabitants. The man, taken into custody, will be brought before the Toulouse prosecutor’s office. The teacher is currently on sick leave.

“I’m going to cut your head off!” A father from the “Clément Ader” school in Le Fauga attacked a teacher at the same school on Friday evening, September 4th, as classes let out. The teacher, who was returning to her car in the school parking lot, was surprised by the Muslim man, who hurled insults at her and threatened to behead her. His son, an elementary school student, had been punished earlier in class by another teacher for his insolent behavior. The child had been sent to the victim’s class, where, according to witnesses, he continued to act like a bully.

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France: Foreigners responsible for 87% of thefts, 61% of sexual violence on Paris public transport

France: Foreigners responsible for 87% of thefts, 61% of sexual violence on Paris public transport

Foreigners account for a massive share of thefts, sexual violence, and robberies on Paris public transport in 2025, according to new government data.

According to compilations from the SSMSI data files, foreigners accounted in 2025 for 87 percent of simple thefts on Île-de-France public transport, 60 percent of robberies, and 38 percent of physical assault.

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The French mother who said ‘non’ to migrants: Woman living on the frontline of Europe’s asylum crisis releases footage of young men in life jackets rushing past her property to catch dinghies going to Britain

The French mother who said ‘non’ to migrants: Woman living on the frontline of Europe’s asylum crisis releases footage of young men in life jackets rushing past her property to catch dinghies going to Britain

A Frenchwoman has described how migrants have made her terrified to stay in her home on the front line of the small-boat crisis, as she released CCTV of crowds swarming past in life jackets to catch dinghies bound for Britain.

Mother-of-two Héloïse Longuet, 44, said her 19th-century family farmhouse on the English Channel coast near Neufchâtel-Hardelot, south of Boulogne-sur-Mer, was now surrounded by young men living in illegal squats.

All have been drawn to the once quiet corner of northern France by criminals charging them around £1,000 a head for a place on an overcrowded inflatable heading for England.

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Marine Le Pen’s Muslim headscarf ban is popular, not populist

Marine Le Pen’s Muslim headscarf ban is popular, not populist

Marine Le Pen has promised to ban women wearing Muslim headscarves if she becomes president next year. The leader of the National Rally declared on X: ‘I will submit to the French people, by referendum, a bill to combat Islamist ideologies with numerous powerful measures, including the banning of the Islamist headscarf in public spaces’.

France has led the way among European countries on the issue of conservative Islamic dress. In 2004, for example, a law was passed prohibiting the wearing of conspicuous religious symbols in schools. It applied to Christians, Jews and Muslims, but France was accused of using the bill to persecute Islam. ‘Wearing a headscarf, for whatever reason, will not undermine the French nation,’ said the Guardian.

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