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Paula Celestino

6,100 Arrests and a Teenager's Lost Hand: What France's Student Uprising Reveals About a System Under Collapse

People take part in a demonstration part of a nationwide day of actions called by high-school students, joined by unions and teachers, who for days have been demanding better learning conditions in protests punctuated by violent confrontations in Nantes, western France, on October 6, 2026. Students have blocked the entrances to hundreds of high schools for 15- to 17-year-olds since late September, complaining of missing teachers, overloaded timetables, dilapidated classrooms and buildings that cannot cope with rising temperatures. (Credit: Photo by Sebastien Salom-Gomis / AFP via Getty Images)

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