Overview
- What began as school walkouts demanding replacement teachers and more funding has expanded onto university campuses and into city streets, producing broad disruption to transit and campus operations.
- Reports describe escalating violence that includes a fire at a Nantes high school, a firetruck set alight near a Marseille lycée, and school leaders in Marseille assaulted and doused with gasoline.
- Official tallies put the total injured at 119 students and staff and 83 police officers since the protests began, and a youth in Tours was hospitalized with a head wound prosecutors say is compatible with a police LBD projectile.
- The national police inspectorate has opened three investigations into student injuries and authorities have deployed police who used tear gas in some clashes, raising scrutiny of crowd-control tactics.
- The government has convened an interministerial crisis meeting to coordinate security and address the protesters' demands, with the outcome likely to shape responses to teacher shortages and future demonstrations.