Mapping how France’s protest wave spread across Europe
- France’s protest movement is showing little sign of easing, nearly two months after high school students first walked out over crumbling classrooms.
- On Saturday, 146,000 people rallied across the country, including 46,000 in Paris, according to the Ministry of the Interior, while unions put the figures at 250,000 and 75,000.
- Turnout was down from previous weeks, but police used tear gas and batons on protesters in Paris and fired tear gas canisters at hundreds of people blocking a road in central Lyon, France’s third-largest city.
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- France’s protest movement is showing little sign of easing, nearly two months after high school students first walked out over crumbling classrooms.
- On Saturday, 146,000 people rallied across the country, including 46,000 in Paris, according to the Ministry of the Interior, while unions put the figures at 250,000 and 75,000.
- Turnout was down from previous weeks, but police used tear gas and batons on protesters in Paris and fired tear gas canisters at hundreds of people blocking a road in central Lyon, France’s third-largest city.
Sources: Al Jazeera