Education
France braces for new wave of student protests as hundreds of schools close
October 4, 2026 at 07:00 PM · Updated 12d ago
6 reports · 3 in Arabic, 3 in English · over 14 hours
MAMasrawy
الاحتجاجات تتصاعد في الشارع الفرنسي وسط انسحاب جزئي للشرطة | مصراوي
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AJAl Jazeera English
France to shutter up to 500 schools as more student protests called
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BNBBC News
France to close up to 500 schools on Monday over student protests
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SNSky News Arabia
بعد أسبوع من العنف.. فرنسا تترقب موجة جديدة من الاحتجاجات
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TGThe Guardian
More than 400 schools in France to be closed on Monday as more protests planned
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AJAl Jazeera Arabic
سلاح حربي بوجه طلاب.. تكسير أسنان وإصابات عيون في احتجاجات فرنسا
(opens the publisher’s site)France is bracing for a second week of nationwide student protests as hundreds of schools close over safety concerns.
- Education Minister Édouard Geffray announced 400 to 500 high schools will suspend lessons Monday, with 24 institutions burnt or ransacked and 78 staff injured.
- Protest organizers called for renewed demonstrations Tuesday, citing the government's failure to produce concrete measures.
- Officials reported more than 5,000 arrests last week, mostly of minors.
- Amnesty International, citing a recording verified by Le Monde, said police fired a grenade launcher at close range at a 14-year-old, causing serious facial injury.
- The government blamed far-left activists for infiltrating the movement and engaging in extreme violence.
- Demonstrators set fire to vital installations and raided police vehicles in a fresh wave of violence, reports said.
- Police forces have partially withdrawn across France amid rising tensions over the protests, the reports said.