- Thousands of students across France have staged widespread and increasingly violent protests against teacher shortages and dilapidated school buildings.
- Demonstrations have taken place nationwide, with barricades erected outside schools in major cities including Paris , Lille and Marseille .
- Authorities responded with riot police, with France's Justice Ministry reporting 5,060 arrests, 87 per cent of whom are minors.
- Violent incidents have been reported during the clashes, including a 15-year-old student who suffered a severed hand from a police stun grenade.
- The protest movement initially began in late September at a high school in a Paris suburb before rapidly spreading across the country.
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