We and our partners do the following data processing based on your consent: store and/or access information on a device, personalised advertising and content, advertising and content measurement, audience research and services development Hundreds of French schools remain closed as student protests turn violent Some 400 French schools have been closed and will remain shuttered on Friday as the student protests that began in high schools in the Paris region last week have spread across France and grown increasingly violent. The students are protesting grievances including teacher shortages and dilapidated school buildings. The government has blamed the hard left for initiating the movement.
High school students in Marseille protest outside their school on October 1, 2026. © Miguel Medina, About 400 schools in France are expected to remain closed on Friday after student protests that began over education-related grievances escalated into violence in some places. Read moreTransport suspended in some French cities as school protests continue According to a contact close to Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu, at a crisis meeting on Thursday intelligence agencies shared that the protest movement had been initiated by politicians from the hard left, including members of France Unbowed (LFI). LFI lawmaker Louis Boyard denied the claim in comments to French broadcasters.
The protests against teacher shortages and dilapidated school buildings erupted in the Paris region last month but have turned increasingly violent as they spread nationwide, with dozens injured and police making hundreds of arrests. Student protesters started fires in at least two high schools on Thursday, while teachers were inadvertently splashed with petrol at a third in the southern city of Marseille, officials said. At least one car was torched in Strasbourg in the east, and riot police clashed with youths in Toulouse in the southwest.
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