Overview
- Tuesday's nationwide actions kept the movement going into its fourth week with marches and blockades that left about 200 to 214 schools closed according to education ministry figures.
- Students are demanding more teachers, smaller classes and urgent repairs for dilapidated buildings after videos and reports showed leaks, collapsed ceilings and other basic failures at some lycées.
- Police have detained thousands since the unrest began with the justice ministry saying more than 6,800 people have been held and roughly 86% of those detained are minors.
- The government has offered short‑term steps including deployment of roughly 3,000 substitute teachers to worst‑affected schools and has suspended use of a type of stun grenade while multiple probes into police conduct proceed.
- The protests have become a live political issue with left and right candidates taking opposing stances and analysts warning the unrest could reshape the campaign landscape and public spending debates into 2027.