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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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John Leicester

French TV channels scramble to apologize after airing Albanian protests as Paris and Lyon

APTOPIX Albania Protests - (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Two French news channels backpedaled and apologized this weekend after they misidentified images of protests in Albania as demonstrations taking place in France.

CNEWS made the mix-up first on Saturday, as a mass march was getting underway peacefully in southern Paris — the largest of nearly 300 demonstrations nationwide over school funding and soaring living costs that together drew hundreds of thousands of people.

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