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French school protests resume on smaller scale as students return from break

Global Published 2 November 2026, 16:38 · archived 2 Nov 2026

PARIS: French high school student protests resumed on Monday on a much smaller scale than in past weeks as pupils returned from a two-week break, with youngsters trying to blockade a few high schools in Paris, Marseille and Rennes, French media reported. By 0830 GMT some 41 high schools — about 1% of those nationwide — were blockaded, the Education Ministry said. Hundreds of France’s more than 3,000 high schools were blockaded in the weeks prior to the break. The protests, which began in the Paris suburbs in September, have spread across France and broadened beyond education to focus on the co...

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