{"id":62981,"date":"2026-10-18T05:56:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T05:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/how-day-of-protests-unfolded-as-disorder-breaks-out-across-france\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T05:56:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T05:56:27","slug":"how-day-of-protests-unfolded-as-disorder-breaks-out-across-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/how-day-of-protests-unfolded-as-disorder-breaks-out-across-france\/","title":{"rendered":"How day of protests unfolded as disorder breaks out across France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An estimated 550,000 people took part in protests across France, demanding greater investment in education and action on the rising cost of living.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The demonstrations quickly descended into violence, with cars and buildings set alight and shops ransacked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At least 1,200 people were arrested on Saturday as riot police deployed tear gas and water cannons to disperse crowds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The unrest follows weeks of student-led protests, with demonstrators joining forces to express growing anger over economic conditions and French President Emmanuel Macron handling of the crisis. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a social media post, Macron denounced the violence and said that vandals and looters will be &#8220;prosecuted and punished&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC correspondent Adina Campbell reports from Paris.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i>Video editor: Zahra Fatima<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c6d937wedj7jo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Read more about the day of protests across France.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/videos\/cwz0vy770gpzo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An estimated 550,000 people took part in protests across France, demanding greater investment in education and action on the rising cost of living. The demonstrations quickly descended into violence, with cars and buildings set alight and shops ransacked. At least 1,200 people were arrested on Saturday as riot police deployed tear gas and water cannons [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[1597,75,1342,972,732,3741],"class_list":["post-62981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-breaks","tag-day","tag-disorder","tag-france","tag-protests","tag-unfolded"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62983,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62981\/revisions\/62983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}