High schoolers have blockaded schools for weeks over teacher shortages, crumbling buildings, overcrowding, and disrupted schedules, with officials acknowledging some valid concerns amid arrests of thousands, many minors.
On October 13, protests in Paris grew violent as crowds threw projectiles and set fires, prompting police to use tear gas, water cannons, and stun grenades, injuring people on both sides.
That same night, a blaze gutted the Marché des Enfants Rouges, Paris’s oldest covered market from 1615, with no injuries but its cause still unknown and no direct link to the unrest.
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