{"id":789678,"date":"2026-10-02T13:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T13:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/789678\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T13:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T13:46:09","slug":"france-school-protests-fires-lit-on-streets-across-france-after-hundreds-of-schools-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/789678\/","title":{"rendered":"France school protests: Fires lit on streets across France after hundreds of schools close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of schools shut by unrest as French students protest funding gapspublished at 09:55 BST<\/p>\n<p>09:55 BST<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"French high school students gather outside the Lycee Voltaire high school as part of nationwide protests to demand the hiring of substitute teachers, increased resources and better learning conditions\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/96f452e9-d86e-4447-8022-0e3991ad533a.jpg.webp\"  width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Reuters<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More than 400 schools across France have been shut as the French government says student protests have descended into &#8220;urban violence&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sixty-five staff members have been injured in the unrest and there has been &#8220;significant damage&#8221; to school facilities, with classes now taking place remotely, French education minister \u00c9douard Geffray has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Student protests have broken out over a lack of teachers and staff, overcrowded classrooms and run-down buildings. University students also joined demonstrations on Thursday. The French interior ministry says 1,949 people were arrested, with 305 police officers injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The blockades and protests at French lyc\u00e9es &#8211; for 15 to 18-year-old students &#8211; began last week before spreading to hundreds of schools across the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">So far, 1,027 lyc\u00e9es have been affected by demonstrations, with blockades at 222 of them, according to the interior ministry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At least 30 universities have also reportedly been blockaded, including campuses in Rennes and Paris.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We&#8217;ll be following developments throughout the day &#8211; stay with us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of schools shut by unrest as French students protest funding gapspublished at 09:55 BST 09:55 BST Image&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-789678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}