Even by French standards, the protests that have convulsed the country this week have been more dramatic than the usual flare-ups.
About a quarter of a million high-school students, teachers, trade unionists and activists were on the streets on Tuesday, facing off against police touting riot shields and tear gas.
But one high-profile figure was missing: Marine Le Pen, the leader of the hard-Right populist party National Rally.
Carney sure can pick em.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon and his far-left France Unbowed (LFI) party are not merely supporting France’s so-called ‘student’ riots. They are trying to turn them into an instrument for dismantling the ‘Old France’ and accelerating the arrival of the ‘New France’ around which Mélenchon has built his 2027 presidential campaign. In that sense, the fires consuming schools are becoming an almost literal image of the far left’s political project: the inherited order is racist, obsolete and dominated by whites; a new one must replace it.
France is a multicultural hell. It won’t be easy to get out of this chaos. https://t.co/KzzngZL1kf
— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) October 4, 2026
France has suspended the use of stun grenades for policing student protests that have swept the country, after a 15-year-old’s hand was blown off earlier this week.
Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said he had requested the pause until the facts of Monday’s incident in Lens had been “clarified”, with conflicting accounts offered by protesters and officials.
Several groups have complained of police using disproportionate force towards teenagers.
🇫🇷 On 5 October 2026, a 15-year-old pupil at the Lycée Auguste-Béhal in Lens, France, lost his left hand with a police grenade.
About 200–250 students had gathered and some threw stones and fireworks at officers; local reports say he picked up a stun grenade to throw it back. https://t.co/lAm4tBEUjT
— ½Man½Rusk 🇲🇿 (@HalfManHalfRusk) October 7, 2026
For most of the past week, the main French news channels have been leading with images that are familiar but still frightening to the French public. The images are of burning trash bins, overturned cars, gangs of masked youths taunting the police and throwing missiles at them — fireworks and Molotov cocktails — as well as attacking firefighters. The police, wearing heavy riot armor and carrying shields, have charged into the crowds of youngsters. They have used not only tear gas, but flash-balls, rubber bullets that constitute a “less-than-lethal” but nonetheless powerfully disabling weapon. Additionally, police have been indiscriminately smashing heads with batons.
At first sight, there is not much new here: after a decade or so of street violence, from the demonstrations of the Gilet Jaunes to the recent protests against pension reform, taking in the 2023 riots against the police killing of young North African in a Paris suburb along the way, the French public is now accustomed to scenes that in any other country would look like freeze-frame snapshots from a war zone.
🚨 BREAKING: MASSIVE RIOTS and PALESTINE FLAGS are waving in Paris, riot police are STRUGGLING, foreigners are everywhere and leftists are going berserk
THIS IS AMERICA IF THE LEFTISTS WIN.
The Islamists are waving the Palestinian flag everywhere…FRANCE IS FALLING
TEAR GAS is now being deployed.
Hamas movements are "ACTIVELY INVOLVED" in the riots
Rioters are being chased everywhere, but I want to see more MASS ARRESTS
This is a total free for all! IT LOOKS LIKE A 3RD WORLD NATION.
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 6, 2026
Before dawn on Tuesday outside the Lycée Sophie-Germain in central Paris, hundreds of teenagers dragged wheelie bins, metal barriers and shopping trolleys to build a barricade outside the front door of their secondary school.
Climbing to the top of the piles of bins, pupils held banners calling for more funding and greater equality in French schools. But they were also protesting against French riot police, who have been accused by human rights groups of using disproportionate force against children in what is fast becoming the biggest youth protest movement in decades.
“Everyone hates the police,” chanted a group of 15- and 16-year-olds. At least 215 teenagers, 715 police officers and 85 teaching staff have been injured in clashes in recent days, according to the government.
Hello Canada!
The problem looming over these riots is that France has a large population of young people who are immigrants or the children/grandchildren of immigrants that are simply not employable. They will not work and employers will not risk hiring them.
They are not citizens in any meaningful sense, but an unassimilated third world horde, unemployable and ultimately ungovernable.
— John Daniel Davidson (@johnddavidson) October 5, 2026
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.
🇫🇷 A student rioter at Honoré-de-Balzac high school near Paris has called for the police to be killed “in the name of Allah.”
“There are only ten of them. In the name of Allah, we can kill them all!” he shouted. Other young rioters happily cheered. https://t.co/JlxODhlZrg
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 5, 2026
If you’re curious why the media is spreading so much false information about the riots, consider:
— The French Culture Ministry paid €204.7 million in direct aid to the news media in 2023, of which Le Monde received €8.3 million, L’Humanité €6.5 million and Libération €6.3 million
— The @afpfr runs “fact-checks” in 26 languages, received €120 million from the French state in 2025, against €200.3 million in commercial revenue. @AFP is French government propaganda and disinformation
— European governments are committed through a UN agreement to spread pro-mass migration propaganda by funding it directly. The “migration compact,” which 152 governments voted for in the UN General Assembly in 2018, commits them to “stopping allocation of public funding… to media outlets that systematically promote intolerance, xenophobia, racism and other forms of discrimination towards migrants,” which is broadly interpreted to cover criticism of mass migration policies
— To maintain control over news media, the European Commission funds a network of 15 fact-checking hubs with tens of millions of euros, and its rules require platforms to give priority to notices from “trusted flaggers.”
— Governments fund think tanks to produce reports, including ones demanding censorship, that the news media cover sympathetically and editorialize in support of.
— The @ISDglobal in London — which demands censorship of people it disagrees with on climate change, gender, and migration, refuses to speak with journalists, and lists a phony address — lists among its funders the British Foreign Office, the U.S. Departments of Homeland Security and Justice, the German Foreign Office and the European Commission, along with Google and Microsoft.
https://t.co/LpyxOXtFAY
— Public reported in 2024 that ISD and the German fact-checker Correctiv, both government-funded, had spread false claims about German farmers and opposition politicians.
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) October 5, 2026
Read the entire thread it helps answer why Carney is hot for the European Union.
h/t Mauser
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.
“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%.
France has been taken over. Even with 2000 invaders arrested.
Jordan Bardella is 100% sure these riots are happening weekly bc of the unchecked mass immigration Macron and his husband have allowed. 350 cops injured.
Is this what the EU wanted? This what Dems want for the US? https://t.co/k6idtyAoaq
— The Beringer Project (@BradBeringer) October 4, 2026
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.
Notice how those who are telling you that burning a bystander’s face constitutes protesting against insufficient funding for schools are also repeatedly scaremongering about the rise of the ‘far right’ in Europe. pic.twitter.com/QMm3GGnd4v
— Stelios Panagiotou (@Panagiotou90St) October 3, 2026
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.
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.
FRANCE FAMILY SURROUNDED and BRUTALLY BEATEN by RIOTERS
RIOTERS SEPARATE HUSBAND and WIFE as she SCREAMS FOR HELP pic.twitter.com/cmmFaImRNV
— RT (@RT_com) October 3, 2026
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.”
Do not notice who is assaulting the teacher. https://t.co/Vmyz9GEKcJ
— Kellie-Jay Keen (@ThePosieParker) October 2, 2026
The French left and its Islamist allies are behind this.
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.
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.
BREAKING:
French judges today indicted 11 second-generation North African migrants for the 2023 murder of 16-y-old Thomas Perotto in Crépol, France
The judges added racism “against the White race and the French nation” as an aggravating circumstance, so theyface life in prison pic.twitter.com/2Rk4hTLRf8
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) September 25, 2026
h/t Patti Jo
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.
