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SAINT-DENIS, France, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Dozens of people have been injured and hundreds arrested, most of them teenagers, officials said, in a wave ‌of French student protests against teacher shortages and dilapidated buildings that on Wednesday spread to more schools across the country.
The demonstrations and blockades, which began last week and coincided on Tuesday with a broader public-sector strike, have become a political flashpoint at a sensitive moment for France, as they spread to 356 high ​schools and turned more violent.


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Report Escapee • October 8, 2026 4:19 PM BST
You've been played by a foreigner.

Cajoled, prodded and nurtured by a foreigner into hating British culture.




Question: What aspect of British culture do you want to watch on the BBC that you can not already watch on the BBC?


Of course you can't answer that because you don't know the answer.
You don't even know why you hate the BBC or even how you got to a state where you openly declare you hate the BBC.

That's because you've been played, cajoled, prodded and nurtured into your "view" by a foreigner.
Report lapsy pa • October 8, 2026 4:34 PM BST
A foreigner who backs Trump who is no friend of the UK with the Falklands,Tariffs and making everyone poorer.
Report Escapee • October 8, 2026 4:40 PM BST
There's a simple test you use to find out if your view is really your view, or actually someone else's view that's been implanted.

Take something you dislike or hate and ask yourself why?
If you come up with a list of reasons, then it's mostly likely your view, if you can't come up with a list of reasons then it's not your view, it's been implanted.

E.G.
I hate oysters.
Why?
Because they're slimey, look and feel like the contents of well filled handkerchief, and taste mostly of sea water.



If you can't come up with a list of reasons why you hate the BBC, then it's not your view, it's someone else's view that implanted in your mind.
Report Ronaldmcdonald • October 8, 2026 5:12 PM BST
Why be an apologist for people Escapee who intentionally mislead all the time and covered up for Savile and Harris for over 40 years? Dave signed a bill to allow Epstein transparency and he's the guy your TDS is about yet the BBC are your heros.
Report Escapee • October 8, 2026 5:19 PM BST
Why be an apologist for a pdfile ron?

Everyone knows he's the most mentioned name in the files.
Everyone knows he hasn't released the name of a single perp and that he's protecting all of them.
Everyone knows he hasn't prosecuted anyone in the files.
Everyone knows he's still witholding 1.5 million files.
Report Ronaldmcdonald • October 8, 2026 5:44 PM BST
It must be really hard being a TDS bro having to ignore reality. Millions of files were released on Dave's watch not sleepy Joe's and yet sleepy Joe is your hero. All the Epstein offenders who were jailed were jailed during republican presidencies and yet the Democrats are your heroes. If TDS bros honestly cared about the Epstein files they would support Dave, who has done far more for Epstein transparency.
Report saddo • October 8, 2026 6:05 PM BST
The TDS bros probably agree with sleepy Joe giving Fauchi a pardon, for doing nowt wrong.
Report Ronaldmcdonald • October 8, 2026 6:18 PM BST
Fauci - is the guy who invoked his Fifth Amendment right 111 times during his recent Senate hearing? Classic innocent behaviour for someone who already has a pardon.
Report FATTIEWHITEYSLOVEADRINK • October 8, 2026 6:30 PM BST
TRUMP ACCOUNTS
Look a fantastic opportunity for them born
2025 - 2028
American born

Trump is Looney but he’s good loon
Report Ronaldmcdonald • October 9, 2026 9:48 AM BST
A lot of people are refusing to sign their kids up for Trump accounts. They are so far gone with TDS they would deny their children a nest egg. Lefties are bonkers.
Report Escapee • October 9, 2026 10:25 AM BST
TRump accounts for kids: Get $1,000 if you were born during trump presidency, (nothing if not).
Realtives add up to $5,000 per year, Penalties and taxes if you access the money before you are 57.

Great wheeze for the generationally rich, a nothing sandwhich for everybody else.
Report DixieDean60 • October 9, 2026 11:36 AM BST
Escapee Joined: 27 Aug 04 | Topic/replies: 11,291 | Blogger: Escapee's blog
There's a simple test you use to find out if your view is really your view, or actually someone else's view that's been implanted.


There is also a simple test you can take to see if you are in fact a deluded numpty, with an obsession for the politics of a different country to our own, posting bilge on an anonymous forum, who claims to be non partisan on political matters but whose every post proves otherwise:

Q - Is your forum name Escapee, yes or no  ?

End of test.
Report Ronaldmcdonald • October 9, 2026 11:48 AM BST
Shocking - locking up 85-year-olds for holding up placards.

It's a disgrace.
Report Ronaldmcdonald • October 9, 2026 11:48 AM BST
As long as they weren't protesting on behalf of a proscribed terrorist organisation.
Report Escapee • October 9, 2026 11:53 AM BST

Escapee Joined: 27 Aug 04 | Topic/replies: 11,291 | Blogger: Escapee's blog
There's a simple test you use to find out if your view is really your view, or actually someone else's view that's been implanted.


It's a great and easy test isn't it Dixie?

The simple but irrefutable logic of it:

If you can't list the reasons you hold a view then it's not your view it's someone elses view that you're just parroting.

Report Ronaldmcdonald • October 9, 2026 12:00 PM BST
I dare say you agree with me if it turns out those 85-year-olds Escapee were protesting on behalf of a proscribed terrorist organisation that would be a very different matter.
Report the old nanny ;-) • October 9, 2026 1:41 PM BST
3000 reserve/new  teachers , G luck to some of them in the wrong school or college ,can't see a rush to sign up TBH , loads were beaten up this week. 

I wonder who beat them up , must be thick Students  if they think the Teachers have anything to do with Funding and maintaining buildings . 

France is in a  Desperate state  , REJOIN THE EU , Righty Ho
Report DixieDean60 • October 9, 2026 2:02 PM BST
Escapee - riddle me this : How about if the "someone else" whose view you are parroting, also backs up their view with reasons that you then also parrot ?

According to your logic it would then be "your view" and valid to hold would it not ?
Report DixieDean60 • October 9, 2026 3:06 PM BST
But how do you know that they are parroting the reasons (as well as the viewpoint) unless they admit such ? 

Answer - you don't.

Ergo, your logic is not irrefutable.
Report ----you-have-to-laugh--- • October 9, 2026 3:08 PM BST
But how do you know that they are parroting the reasons (as well as the viewpoint) unless they admit such ?

Answer - you specifically told us it was the case.
Report DixieDean60 • October 9, 2026 4:09 PM BST
Well obviously that is what i did Donny by giving the generalised example  , but how would you know that was the case with any one individual  ?

The point is that Escapee's "irrefutable logic" is anything but irrefutable.
Report Shrewd_dude • October 9, 2026 5:40 PM BST
The far left kicking off in Belgium now as well.

Looks like most are wearing Donny's nonce bonnets.
Report the old nanny ;-) • October 9, 2026 5:45 PM BST
The Carnage still continues in Paris , where is this going to End ?
Report the old nanny ;-) • October 9, 2026 8:44 PM BST
They are after Manny they want him Out
Report timbuctooth • October 10, 2026 12:40 AM BST
Won't take much more, 21.0 available for him to be gone before the next election, great value
Report Shrewd_dude • October 10, 2026 4:41 PM BST
The BBC still calling people setting other people on fire "school protests". Cry
Report saddo • October 10, 2026 5:10 PM BST
They are calling the Omani pilot a lone wolf terrorist rather than an Islamic terrorist.
They don't do truth these days, just propaganda.
Report Ronaldmcdonald • October 10, 2026 5:13 PM BST
Can't hate the BBC enough.
Report saddo • October 10, 2026 5:16 PM BST
Grin
Report Shrewd_dude • October 13, 2026 3:57 PM BST
The loony left and paddystinian pin up girl Greta has now turned up with her keffiyeh and is blaming the police.
Report Shrewd_dude • October 13, 2026 3:57 PM BST
The loony left and paddystinian pin up girl Greta has now turned up with her keffiyeh and is blaming the police.
Report the old nanny ;-) • October 13, 2026 4:00 PM BST
She wants to be careful ,was a woman had her heed set on fire last week
Report alun2005 • October 17, 2026 8:34 PM BST
I see that these "Education Protests" by "Progressive" individuals have taken that familiar pattern... violent assaults on police and the looting of high end stores.

Who could have guessed that wearing a brand new, unpaid-for Hermes tie or scarf could help you master the complexities of algebra?

The "Liberté, égalité, fraternité" beloved of the French certainly hasn't been helped by the addition of "Diversité".
Report Shrewd_dude • October 17, 2026 10:34 PM BST
Nothing to see of course. Happens all the time in France according to the lefties on here.
Report Stringvest • October 17, 2026 11:26 PM BST
Babylons Burning Wink
Report Shrewd_dude • October 18, 2026 11:09 AM BST
From the river to the sea our Nike trainers will be free.
Report alun2005 • October 18, 2026 11:13 AM BST
Laugh
Report BennyBinion1 • October 18, 2026 11:31 AM BST
Burning historic buildings, looting high end fashion and sportswear stores, while waving their foreign flags.

So concerned about the education system and government dept.

While the establishment sit back and watch.

Multiculturalism is so enriching
Report Shrewd_dude • October 18, 2026 4:23 PM BST
Looks like there's going to be a lot of children going back to school with Louis Vuitton pencil cases once this is all over.
Report the old nanny ;-) • October 18, 2026 4:37 PM BST
Grin
Report the old nanny ;-) • October 18, 2026 4:41 PM BST
Macron to address the Nation 

US president Donald Trump hit out at the protesters, writing on social media: “France is burning! The immigration of people from an entirely different world, people with hatred in their hearts, has shattered that once great country.” French prime minister Sébastien Lecornu attributed some of the violence to "radical far-left groups".

Don not buying the Pencil Sharpeners angle
Report alun2005 • October 18, 2026 5:25 PM BST
It's truly extraordinary how often the Kind, Peaceful, Tolerant Progressives and the Culturally Enriching Incomers they love can't wait to steal, rob, loot and worse.
Report the old nanny ;-) • October 18, 2026 5:54 PM BST
The leftie Chaps on here seem to have no opinion on the Mayhem
Report Shrewd_dude • October 18, 2026 6:37 PM BST
It would be difficult for them to comment on something where they can't spout about racism, the far right, Trump or Farage.
Report DixieDean60 • October 18, 2026 7:11 PM BST
ITV news main item just now was about Reform and this hit job documentary they are broadcasting tonight. If it's taken them a year and all they have is what i've heard so far then all i can say is what a colossal waste of time.

The major unrest in France was relegated to second place, tells you a lot about their priorities and bias. The only mention of the hard left causing the aggro was when they had to translate what the French PM was saying, can you imagine how many times we would have heard "far right" if that group was allegedly responsible ?
Report Escapee • October 18, 2026 9:12 PM BST

US president Donald Trump hit out at the protesters, writing on social media: “France is burning! The immigration of people from an entirely different world, people with hatred in their hearts, has shattered that once great country.” French prime minister Sébastien Lecornu attributed some of the violence to "radical far-left groups".

Don not buying the Pencil Sharpeners angle


Him saying this just him trying to remind everyone he is the count who sent thousands of rioters and looters to the capitol building whilst it was perfoming it's most sacred and ceremonial session in it's 4 year cycle.


He is taunting france, He's saying "they're ametetuers, I got rioters to break in to the parliament, defecate and spread it all over the walls, urinate in the corridors. Setting fire to a bicycle is nothing"





Don't think Don bought any pencil sharpeners that day either

Report BennyBinion1 • October 18, 2026 9:16 PM BST
TDS

Seek help!!!

Every day u mad loony!!!!
Report Escapee • October 18, 2026 9:21 PM BST

TDS

Seek help!!!

Every day u mad loony!!!!


TDS is not an insult or a slur in the UK

We're British, you can shove your idolising and demigodding of a politician up your chocolate starfish.

Report Escapee • October 18, 2026 9:46 PM BST
You guys are in so deep, we are talking Kim Il Sung deep.

What are you going to do after he's filled his last diaper?
Pickle him and put him on display like Kim so you can file past in the decades to come?
Report Shrewd_dude • October 18, 2026 11:01 PM BST
Macron has called for Calm. That should sort things out. Cry
Report Shrewd_dude • October 19, 2026 10:35 AM BST
The BBC:

They were mostly peaceful, but as we saw in the capital, in the wings were those who wanted to take advantage of the disorder,

Almost hard to believe even for the BBC.
Report lapsy pa • October 19, 2026 11:16 AM BST
Their economy is dire and understandable people aren't happy with the cost of living and poor services etc,no excuse for violence,looting though.

Where has the sudden jump in the price of stuff come from and who is responsible?
Report Shrewd_dude • October 19, 2026 11:34 AM BST
Brexit? Laugh
Report Jumper45 • October 19, 2026 11:39 AM BST
The Guardian still inhabiting an alternative universe. Blaming a heavy handed police response.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/18/france-riot-looting-anger-violence-protest-streets
Report Shrewd_dude • October 19, 2026 11:45 AM BST
A branch of Nicolas, a chain wine shop, had its window smashed in and black-clad protesters looted it – not for the wine but for missiles to throw at police in retaliation for the stun grenades.

A cracker from the Guardian.
Report alun2005 • October 19, 2026 1:22 PM BST
After Macron's belated and fearsome intervention, any more news from the front line of the "Definitely Nothing To Do With Islam Riots" ?
Report alun2005 • October 19, 2026 1:27 PM BST
I'm guessing therefore that the masked rioters looted the Apple Store specifically to grab iPhones to throw at the brutal gendarmes? 


Mystery solved.
Report Shrewd_dude • October 19, 2026 1:34 PM BST
I've heard that the placing of a Gucci bag over ones head is a particularly effective deterrent for tear gas as well.
Report the old nanny ;-) • October 19, 2026 4:37 PM BST
Its all about Trump and the Oil that is making Folks go out and try to burn down cathedrals ... Milan Cathedral lucky to be still standing they were firing Fireworks the lot at it
Report Shrewd_dude • October 19, 2026 5:13 PM BST
The far left a threat to democracy now.

French PM today said that intelligence agencies had briefed the government of the risk that extreme-left political groups could seek to disrupt next year's presidential election.
Report Shrewd_dude • October 19, 2026 8:18 PM BST
Brazen French rioters start selling off their hauls of looted goods on Vinted - as buyers search 'products from October 17th'
Report alun2005 • October 19, 2026 9:47 PM BST
Put me down for a new iPhone Max Pro, a Louis Vuitton suitcase and the g/f wants a pair of Louboutins.
Report Busyfool • October 19, 2026 10:21 PM BST
Escapee 18 Oct 26 21:12 
US president Donald Trump hit out at the protesters, writing on social media: “France is burning! The immigration of people from an entirely different world, people with hatred in their hearts, has shattered that once great country.” French prime minister Sébastien Lecornu attributed some of the violence to "radical far-left groups".

Don not buying the Pencil Sharpeners angle
Him saying this just him trying to remind everyone he is the count who sent thousands of rioters and looters to the capitol building whilst it was perfoming it's most sacred and ceremonial session in it's 4 year cycle


what is your point ? is it trumps fault?
Report Escapee • October 19, 2026 10:50 PM BST
Ofcourse it (he french riot) is not his fault.

Everyone knows full well what a riotous mob did on J6 at his behest, his decrying another riotous mob is like a known pdfile trying to be publicly outraged at another pdfile.


if I put it like that does the point become clearer?
Report Stringvest • October 19, 2026 10:57 PM BST
Bring forth the Guilotine
Report Stringvest • October 19, 2026 10:58 PM BST
good tune when out yer nut on a E Laugh
Report Busyfool • October 19, 2026 11:06 PM BST
no

aside from the fact that this isnt comparable, being a general revolt, not a very local one. trump isnt relevant to the events

you cant talk of this insurrection coldly and factually. so you bring in trump. only happens one-way

if there was a riot in the u.s. you would not bring in macron or france or anything. you would focus on your fave bogeyman

because you are a fool and liar

and, btw, im no trumpian. i wish he didnt exist. just dont like dishonesty and double standards
Report Escapee • October 19, 2026 11:26 PM BST
I didn't bring Trump into this thread, Someone else did and also posted Trump's tweet.

I responded to that post and sub topic of this thread, I didn't create it.



The reason Trump gets brought up in so many thread involving a bit of outrage is Trump is the new benchmark.

He's setting to many high watermarks in so many different areas of outrage. It's natural that anything
involving a bit of outrage might be measured against him in the same way Ali set a new benchmark and boxers were, and still are, measured against Ali.


Why did he get bought into this thread?
He said something about the topic, which he of course has new high watermark record himself and someone put it ITT.

He's the benchmark in so many outrageous things, he'll get bought into threads as the benchmark for years to come.
Report Busyfool • October 19, 2026 11:35 PM BST
bollox backtracking

you do it all the time. you talk of uncomfortable truths and duck all of em

give us your learned opinion of the francian calamity rather than your usual evasion and diversion to something you d rather talk about
Report DixieDean60 • October 20, 2026 12:32 AM BST
Trump is not just your benchmark Escapee, he's your whole raison d'etre.

You're obsessed.
Report the old nanny ;-) • October 20, 2026 1:31 AM BST
US, China, Germany and UK urge caution to citizens visiting France

Does that include Disney land ?

Is there Advice to avoid School children and students >  asking for a friend
Report lapsy pa • October 20, 2026 12:57 PM BST
So it has nothing to do with the cost of living and all down to the lunatic far left and emmmmm immigration?
Report Shrewd_dude • October 20, 2026 1:35 PM BST
Burning down schools and town halls, assaulting teachers and attacking and damaging local businesses should help with the cost of living.
Report Shrewd_dude • October 20, 2026 1:35 PM BST
Oh and waving a pally flag whilst doing so should help as well.
Report Stringvest • October 20, 2026 1:50 PM BST
F  I  L  T  H
Report the old nanny ;-) • October 20, 2026 4:30 PM BST
Who attempts to destroy Catholic Cathedrals because of the cost of Living PA , never heard of it myself

perhaps you can Enlighten us
Report the old nanny ;-) • October 20, 2026 4:31 PM BST
The Pally mob are PA's friends Shrewd , cant be anything to do with that
Report lapsy pa • October 20, 2026 4:36 PM BST
What Catholic Cathedrals were destroyed TON? Enlighten me!
Report lapsy pa • October 20, 2026 4:39 PM BST
I'm very much against terrorists in Palestine TON, you can see what they did to the European diplomats.
Report the old nanny ;-) • October 20, 2026 4:54 PM BST
They tried to burn down Milan Cathedral  Firing  their Missile fireworks at it they also lit a large fire
Report lapsy pa • October 20, 2026 5:02 PM BST
So you are saying they fired fireworks at a cathedral? Not good but not quite the picture you painted.

Would it be correct in saying the trouble started due to educational cuts in France,people also protested in Belgium,Italy,Spain,Portugal and their protesting for what iyo?
Before being hijacked by looters and thugs any chance at all because they are struggling with bills and day to day living?
Report the old nanny ;-) • October 20, 2026 5:22 PM BST
If the police had not turned up in force ,There would be no pictures to paint of the Cathedral
Report Stringvest • October 20, 2026 5:53 PM BST
How many Guards are protecting Hunchbacks gaff in Paris dyou reckon Lapsy
Report lapsy pa • October 20, 2026 6:14 PM BST
Loads and loads of the Gendarmes Stringvest, and aren't they right too.

The only problem is they have taken them out of Calais leaving that totally unprotected for nefarious activities.

Shure isn't the icon which is Notre Dame way more important anyway?
Report Shrewd_dude • October 20, 2026 6:23 PM BST
I wonder at what point Lapsy thinks protests were “hijacked”. That’s now 3 weeks of rioting and violence since the thread was created.

Sounds like he has been getting his news from the Beeb and the Guardian.
Report Stringvest • October 20, 2026 6:48 PM BST
Cobblers Lapsy .. who dyou think caused the last fire at the Notre D... Not the old chestnut of faulty wiring is it
Report lapsy pa • October 20, 2026 6:59 PM BST
Not sure but faulty wiring seems the investigated cause, what are the Russians telling us to say it was?
Report Stringvest • October 20, 2026 7:33 PM BST
Hundreds of churches have burnt down across France in the last 10 years .. all faulty wiring Laugh
Report lapsy pa • October 20, 2026 7:58 PM BST
The number of churches that have shut their doors in the last decade is remarkable,in the case of the UK thousands (over 3k),they are empty due to lack of customers. I presume quite a few left derelict and unused in France. More closures imminent.

Surely you aren't trying to make anyone believe they have all been burnt down by muslims? Have they?
Report lapsy pa • October 20, 2026 8:19 PM BST
Don't answer that SV,an unfair question as in the cold light of day i,m sure you realise they haven't.
The innuendo is the problem on the thread to me, i know there are gurriers looting and causing wanton damage to their communities,same as any riot ever before,cuts and struggling to have any half decent life is the growing problem and that is a justifible reason for any protest,the tying in and blame pointing solely in one direction is bollix.
Report Busyfool • October 20, 2026 8:22 PM BST
the church of our lady was not destroyed because of faulty wiring

it was being 'restored'. its a fact that things like this happen a lot during such resoration, sparks flying, cigarettes, temporary fittings, its well known

many churches in france have been destroyed and theres some evidence of our peaceful chums being involved, and why wouldnt they be? theyve destroyed plenty in the middle east, and while worshippers were inside them

imagine mosques being destroyed and worshippers machine-gunned. how would that go down?

but i dont know and nor does anyone and else. it could be innocent but with no evidence the conspiracy loons jump in with what they want to believe. and putin luvs conspiracy loons as they do his work for him, gratis
Report Busyfool • October 20, 2026 8:27 PM BST
pa most of these rioters arent protestors, thye are criminals

every protest is hijacked by them to steal and destroy. france has a serious problem with those who hate the country they have entered, sometimes illegally. they dont belong here and its 1.01 if similar arrive in serious numbers in your country you will change your mind rapido. lucky you are hard to get to
Report lapsy pa • October 20, 2026 8:35 PM BST
BF i accept a lot of that,those who caused the looting and vandalism quite recently in Dublin and Belfast were mostly'homegrown' though again accept some weren't.

I am not against protesting rightly against cuts and cost of living pressures,the case is certainly there.
Report Busyfool • October 20, 2026 8:39 PM BST
not the point. you dont have millions of people hostile to your state living in it

if you did things would change radically

just noticed that 6 posts i put up yesterday have been deleted by the censor for being along similar lines. sick joke this place is
Report Shrewd_dude • October 20, 2026 8:40 PM BST
National protests started on the 29th September and rioting and violence broke out on the 30th and has continued since.

Amazing how people like Lapsy can come out with nonsense that these are protests that got hijacked by others when they've been riots and violence for 3 weeks now.

Then again the Guardian and other such news outlets wouldn't exist without the gullible like him.
Report lapsy pa • October 20, 2026 8:48 PM BST
That's a shame BF, your posts are brutally honest and from the heart and while i don't always agree i can see a point.

No SD,they aren't protesting about education anymore really,it has morphed into something a lot different and not 'continuing' as such since Sept. It is recent enough the looting and damage to business.
Report Stringvest • October 20, 2026 8:51 PM BST
Not heard of any mosks with faulty wiring in France Wink
Report Shrewd_dude • October 20, 2026 8:57 PM BST
On 1st October a teacher was doused in petrol and set on fire and two schools were set on fire. That is not people "protesting about education".
Report Busyfool • October 20, 2026 9:16 PM BST
does anyone else get deleted at such a rate i wonder?

anyway pa ive sent you an example of what was deleted. dont reply, its purely to make a point about the censors being a
Report lapsy pa • October 20, 2026 9:57 PM BST
I read it BF, i disagree for the reason it isn't religion per se.You are one sided.You cannot have another religion using AI algorithms to kill one for up to 500 innocent casualties. That is brutality and no semblance of any Christian thought. Russia has no qualms bombing apartments,public transport. America and this war in Iran,what's it all about,it has no justification in my mind,the nukes not really but bibis project. Iraq and Saddam, really? The history of Christian in regards the Middle East isn't a lot to be proud of,can i see why they 'mistrust' the West. I hear your side but i think it is two sided.

In the theme of the thread i go so far as to say Trump has a part in this,not the one he wants you to go with but the one he is creating.
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