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‘It looks like a war zone’: France reels as looting continues for second night Original
Just before 1am on Monday morning, two motorbikes carrying one passenger each stopped at a traffic light on a backstreet near rue de Rivoli, one of central Paris's busiest shopping streets. "You've got to go where there are a lot of people, where they've done the shop windows," said one motorbike rider to another. Minutes later 10 other men, their faces covered with ski balaclavas, came down the street on foot pursued by a police van.
‘It looks like a war zone’: France reels as looting continues for second night
Rioters attempt to smash the windows of the Adidas store at Châtelet-Les Halles in Paris on Sunday evening. Photograph: Jeanne Accorsini/Sipa/ Shutterstock Just before 1am on Monday morning, two motorbikes carrying one passenger each stopped at a traffic light on a backstreet near rue de Rivoli, one of central Paris’s busiest shopping streets. “You’ve got to go where there are a lot of people, where they’ve done the shop windows,” said one motorbike rider to another.
Narcos have one language – violence: the activist defying France's biggest drug cartel after his brothers' murder
At 23, he is one of the most heavily protected people in France, constantly sleeping in different locations to escape the threat of contract killers from the country's biggest drug cartel.
‘Narcos have one language – violence’: the activist defying France’s biggest drug cartel after his brothers’ murder
Amine Kessaci, who is under police protection, hopes the three-week hearing exposes the reality of cartel bosses so powerful they can allegedly order killings from jail. Photograph: Theo Giacometti/The Guardian At 23, he is one of the most heavily protected people in France, constantly sleeping in different locations to escape the threat of contract killers from the country’s biggest drug cartel.
‘Narcos have one language – violence’: the activist defying France’s biggest drug cartel after his brothers’ murder
At 23, he is one of the most heavily protected people in France, constantly sleeping in different locations to escape the threat of contract killers from the country’s biggest drug cartel. “Narcos and drug traffickers only have one language, one method: violence,” said Amine Kessaci, a young law student from a Marseille housing estate, who, after the murder of his two brothers, has become the most outspoken voice against the Latin American-style narco gangs expanding their reach across France.
‘Narcos have one language – violence’: the activist defying France’s biggest drug cartel after his brothers’ murder
At 23, he is one of the most heavily protected people in France, constantly sleeping in different locations to escape the threat of contract killers from the country's biggest drug cartel. "Narcos and drug traffickers only have one language, one method: violence," said Amine Kessaci, a young law student from a Marseille housing estate, who, after the murder of his two brothers, has become the most outspoken voice against the Latin American-style narco gangs expanding their reach across France.
‘Narcos have one language – violence’: the activist defying France’s biggest drug cartel after his brothers’ murder
At 23, he is one of the most heavily protected people in France, constantly sleeping in different locations to escape the threat of contract killers from the country's biggest drug cartel. "Narcos and drug traffickers only have one language, one method: violence," said Amine Kessaci, a young law student from a Marseille housing estate, who, after the murder of his two brothers, has become the most outspoken voice against the Latin American-style narco gangs expanding their reach across France.
Macron criticises unbridled violence after days of unrest and 2,400 arrests across France
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has criticised “unbridled violence” after one of the most violent days of unrest in years left public buildings burned, hundreds of shops destroyed and looted and at least 2,400 people arrested in cities across the country “Watching these images, we have all asked ourselves how could French people do this to France?” he said in a televised address.
Macron criticises unbridled violence after days of unrest and 2,000 arrests across France
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has criticised “unbridled violence” after one of the most violent days of unrest in years left public buildings burned, hundreds of shops destroyed and looted and more than 2,000 people arrested in cities across the country “Watching these images, we have all asked ourselves how could French people do this to France?” he said in a televised address.
Macron criticises ‘unbridled violence’ after days of unrest and 2,400 arrests across France
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has criticised "unbridled violence" after one of the most violent days of unrest in years left public buildings burned, hundreds of shops destroyed and looted and at least 2,400 people arrested in cities across the country. "Watching these images, we have all asked ourselves how could French people do this to France?" he said in a televised address.
Macron criticises ‘unbridled violence’ after days of unrest and 2,000 arrests across France
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has criticised "unbridled violence" after one of the most violent days of unrest in years left public buildings burned, hundreds of shops destroyed and looted and more than 2,000 people arrested in cities across the country. "Watching these images, we have all asked ourselves how could French people do this to France?" he said in a televised address.
French government in crisis talks after 'colossal failure of the state'
The French government was in crisis talks on Sunday after one of the most violent days of unrest in years left public buildings burned, hundreds of shops destroyed and looted, and more than 2,000 people arrested in cities across the country Politicians on the left and right called for the resignation of the interior minister, Laurent Nuñez, after the government appeared to have been caught by surprise by the scale of violence as state buildings were stormed and torched, bus stops smashed,...
French government in crisis talks after ‘colossal failure of the state’
The French government was in crisis talks on Sunday after one of the most violent days of unrest in years left public buildings burned, hundreds of shops destroyed and looted, and more than 2000 people arrested in cities across the country.
French government in crisis talks after ‘colossal failure of the state’
People stormed and torched the town hall in Limoges, central France, destroying the 19th-century building. Photograph: Pascal Lachenaud/AFP/Getty Images The French government was in crisis talks on Sunday after one of the most violent days of unrest in years left public buildings burned, hundreds of shops destroyed and looted, and more than 2000 people arrested in cities across the country.
French government in crisis talks after ‘colossal failure of the state’
The French government was in crisis talks on Sunday after one of the most violent days of unrest in years left public buildings burned, hundreds of shops destroyed and looted, and more than 2000 people arrested in cities across the country.
French government in crisis talks after ‘colossal failure of the state’
The French government was in crisis talks on Sunday after one of the most violent days of unrest in years left public buildings burned, hundreds of shops destroyed and looted, and more than 2000 people arrested in cities across the country.
French police accused over war-like injuries to teenagers in school protests
Angelique Chrisafis in Paris French lawyers and rights groups have said that several teenagers have suffered war-like injuries from police weapons used during school protests , and an unprecedented number of children have been held in police custody, some of whom reported being hit or racially insulted.
French police accused over war-like injuries to teenagers in school protests
Riot police face protesters at Place de la Bastille this month. Photograph: Firas Abdullah/EPA French lawyers and rights groups have said that several teenagers have suffered war-like injuries from police weapons used during school protests, and an unprecedented number of children have been held in police custody, some of whom reported being hit or racially insulted. Sign up to read this article Read news from 100's of titles, curated specifically for you.
French police accused over war-like injuries to teenagers in school protests
French lawyers and rights groups have said that several teenagers have suffered war-like injuries from police weapons used during school protests, and an unprecedented number of children have been held in police custody, some of whom reported being hit or racially insulted.
French police accused over war-like injuries to teenagers in school protests
French lawyers and rights groups have said that several teenagers have suffered war-like injuries from police weapons used during school protests, and an unprecedented number of children have been held in police custody, some of whom reported being hit or racially insulted.
French police accused over war-like injuries to teenagers in school protests
French lawyers and rights groups have said that several teenagers have suffered war-like injuries from police weapons used during school protests, and an unprecedented number of children have been held in police custody, some of whom reported being hit or racially insulted.
At least 160,000 people take to streets in third week of French school protests
More than 160,000 schoolchildren, students and trade unionists have marched in cities across France as protests over high school education continued into a third week and many demonstrators denounced policing tactics. Riot police fired teargas at the end of Tuesday's marches in Nantes and near the Montparnasse area of Paris, but most of the demonstrations over teacher shortages, overcrowded classes and crumbling school buildings held in cities including Lyon, Lille and Marseille were peaceful.
French centre left must wage existential battle to prevent far right winning presidency
The European lawmaker Raphaël Glucksmann has urged the French centre left to wage an “existential battle” to prevent Marine Le Pen 's far right winning the 2027 presidential election after he was chosen as the social democrat candidate for the presidency. “We've got to rid our hearts of the spirit of defeat,” Glucksmann, the founder of the small party Place Publique, said on Monday morning after his decisive win in a centre-left primary race held by the Socialist party.
French centre left must wage ‘existential battle’ to prevent far right winning presidency
Raphaël Glucksmann said the 2027 presidential election campaign would be brutal and ‘like no other we have ever experienced’. Photograph: Mohammed Badra/EPA The European lawmaker Raphaël Glucksmann has urged the French centre left to wage an “existential battle” to prevent Marine Le Pen’s far right winning the 2027 presidential election, after he was chosen as the social democrat candidate for the presidency.
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‘We're not asking for luxury': School protesters in Paris suburb feel abandoned by French state
Angelique Chrisafis in Sevran On a normal school day, Mohammed, 17, wakes at 6am, cares for his younger siblings to help his single mother who works as a security guard, then takes two crowded buses and a local train to get to his high school in Sevran, a low-income banlieue town in the suburbs north-east of Paris. “There aren't enough chairs or desks to go round, so some students have to stand up,” Mohammed said. “Classes can be so packed you can't interact with the teacher.
‘We’re not asking for luxury’: school protesters in Paris suburb feel abandoned by French state
A sign reading ‘Education in peril – angry youth’ on the gates of the Lycée Blaise-Cendrars in Sevran. Photograph: Ed Alcock/The Guardian On a normal school day, Mohammed, 17, wakes at 6am, cares for his younger siblings to help his single mother who works as a security guard, then takes two crowded buses and a local train to get to his high school in Sevran, a low-income banlieue town in the suburbs north-east of Paris.
How dilapidated are French schools and how bad is inequality in the education system?
Hundreds of French high schools have been barricaded by teenagers and forced to close and hundreds of people have been injured amid clashes with police in the biggest youth protest movement in decades over the state of French lycées, where 15- to 18-year-olds are taught. School students say the education system is riven with inequality, that many buildings are in disrepair, class sizes are too big, and there are not enough teachers or funding.
How dilapidated are French schools and how bad is inequality in the education system?
Students protesting outside the Lycée Henri IV school in Paris on Tuesday. Photograph: Abdul Saboor/Reuters Hundreds of French high schools have been barricaded by teenagers and forced to close and hundreds of people have been injured amid clashes with police in the biggest youth protest movement in decades over the state of French lycées, where 15- to 18-year-olds are taught.
‘This is state violence': Paris students rage at politicians and heavy-handed policing
Angelique Chrisafis in Paris 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.
On the barricades with wheelie bins and shopping trolleys: Paris students rage at politicians and police
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.
On the barricades with wheelie bins and shopping trolleys: Paris students rage at politicians and police
Protests in Lyon on Tuesday. Photograph: Olivier Chassignole/AFP/Getty Images 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.
France braces for national day of school protests as boy loses hand
France is bracing for a national day of protests and high-school blockades as a youth protest movement gathers pace amid a growing debate over the scale of the police response. In one incident, a 15-year-old protesting against what demonstrators said were France's dilapidated and understaffed schools had his hand blown off outside a high school in the northern town of Lens, said François-Xavier Lauch, the prefect of Pas-de-Calais.
Schoolboy, 15, loses hand after picking up police stun grenade during French school protests
Hundreds of schools in France remained fully or partially closed on Monday as teenagers continued to blockade buildings and the government struggled to contain the biggest youth protest movement in years. A 15-year-old protesting against what the demonstrators say are France’s dilapidated and understaffed schools had his hand blown off on Monday in the northern town of Lens, the local prefect François-Xavier Lauch said.
Schoolboy, 15, loses hand after picking up police stun grenade during French school protests
Police officers face a protesting student from the Gustave Eiffel secondary school in Bordeaux on Monday. Photograph: Ugo Amez/SIPA/Shutterstock Hundreds of schools in France remained fully or partially closed on Monday as teenagers continued to blockade buildings and the government struggled to contain the biggest youth protest movement in years.
‘We swept a lot under the carpet': Vichy regime film hits home in France of 2026
Angelique Chrisafis in Paris It is the story of how a lowly state administrator unthinkingly becomes a cog in the machine of an authoritarian regime, embracing the bureaucracy and logistics of sending people to their deaths – and it is drawing in audiences to French cinemas. The French film Notre Salut (Our Salvation), with its modern lighting, improvised scenes and anachronistic 1980s Europop soundtrack, is far from the standard historical costume drama about the second world war.
Fires, fury and hundreds of arrests as France gripped by student protests
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.
French court jails six men for manslaughter over mass drowning in Channel
Angelique Chrisafis in Paris A Paris court has jailed six men for manslaughter over the deaths of at least 27 people in the worst mass drowning on record from a small-boat crossing in the Channel. Seven other men were found guilty of lesser smuggling charges with varying degrees of seriousness, including facilitating illegal immigration as part of an organised gang and criminal conspiracy. Five years on, another four people are still missing.
French court jails six men for manslaughter over mass drowning in Channel
A Paris court has jailed six men for manslaughter over the deaths of at least 27 people in the worst mass drowning from a small-boat crossing in the Channel on record. Seven other men were found guilty of lesser smuggling charges with varying degrees of seriousness, including facilitating illegal immigration as part of an organised gang and criminal conspiracy. Five years on, another four people remain missing.
National Rally's Jordan Bardella rails at ‘war' on party after antisemitism claims
Angelique Chrisafis in Paris Jordan Bardella , the head of Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally (RN), has claimed a “total war” is being waged against his party as he faces a political storm after the publication of antisemitic comments he allegedly wrote as a young party member. Bardella, who is facing calls from political opponents to resign, said on Tuesday that the report by the investigative website Mediapart was false.
National Rally’s Jordan Bardella rails at ‘war’ on party after antisemitism claims
Jordan Bardella, the head of Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally (RN), has claimed a “total war” is being waged against his party as he faces a political storm after the publication of antisemitic comments he allegedly wrote as a young party member. Bardella, who is facing calls from political opponents to resign, said on Tuesday that the report by the investigative website Mediapart was false.
National Rally’s Jordan Bardella rails at ‘war’ on party after antisemitism claims
Jordan Bardella, the head of Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally (RN), has claimed a "total war" is being waged against his party as he faces a political storm after the publication of antisemitic comments he allegedly wrote as a young party member. Bardella, who is facing calls from political opponents to resign, said on Tuesday that the report by the investigative website Mediapart was false.
National Rally’s Jordan Bardella rails at ‘war’ on party after antisemitism claims
Jordan Bardella has accused Mediapart of wanting ‘to kill my political career’ and said he would take legal action. Photograph: Blondet Eliot/Abaca/Shutterstock Jordan Bardella, the head of Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally (RN), has claimed a “total war” is being waged against his party as he faces a political storm after the publication of antisemitic comments he allegedly wrote as a young party member.
National Rally’s Jordan Bardella rails at ‘war’ on party after antisemitism claims
Jordan Bardella, the head of Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally (RN), has claimed a "total war" is being waged against his party as he faces a political storm after the publication of antisemitic comments he allegedly wrote as a young party member. Bardella, who is facing calls from political opponents to resign, said on Tuesday that the report by the investigative website Mediapart was false.
Marine Le Pen hails RN senate surge as 'milestone' towards French presidency
The French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has said her 2027 presidential campaign will be boosted after her anti-immigration party, the National Rally (RN), and its allies improved to a record 14 seats in partial senate elections this weekend. Le Pen called the results a “historic victory” and a “major milestone” after her party cleared the 10-seat threshold to be able to form a senate group for the first time, after an indirect vote by local officials including mayors and councillors.
France's far-right National Rally surges in partial Senate elections
The French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has said her 2027 presidential campaign will be boosted after her anti-immigration party, the National Rally (RN), and its allies secured a record 14 seats in partial senate elections this weekend. Le Pen called the results a “historic victory” and “major milestone” after her party cleared the 10-seat threshold to be able to form a senate group for the first time, following an indirect vote by local officials including mayors and councillors.
Pope Leo warns of AI threat to humanity at start of three-day France visit
Angelique Chrisafis in Paris Pope Leo has warned against losing humanity in a “paradise of machines” as he addressed global concerns over the dangers of artificial intelligence at the start of a three-day visit to France. “If we are to avoid losing our humanity amid a paradise of machines invading and conditioning our daily lives, there is an urgent need for people to be educated in ethical discernment, capable of seeing what is morally right,” he said in a speech at the Élysée.
Pope Leo warns of AI threat to humanity at start of three-day France visit
Pope Leo has warned against losing humanity in a “paradise of machines” as he addressed global concerns over the dangers of artificial intelligence at the start of a three-day visit to France. “If we are to avoid losing our humanity amid a paradise of machines invading and conditioning our daily lives, there is an urgent need for people to be educated in ethical discernment, capable of seeing what is morally right,” he said in a speech at the Elysée.
Tall, dark and hated: plan to renovate 'Paris's ugliest building' put on hold
Angelique Chrisafis in Paris It has been called a carbuncle on the Paris skyline, a sombre skyscraper where visitors to its viewing platform often joke that the city looks better when you can't see the building itself.
Racist abuse of French judo star Teddy Riner investigated after he spoke about rise of far right
Paris’s public prosecutor has opened an investigation into the racist abuse and online harassment of the French judo star Teddy Riner after he expressed concern about the rise of the far right. Riner, who has often been voted France’s most popular sportsperson and is one of the most successful judo competitors of all time, told a TV sports show this month that he felt “anxiety” about the rise of the far right in France.
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