#france protests

[animentality]

[cock-holliday]

Cops are cops are cops. And ALL cops are bastards no matter the country. The French police view themselves at war with a “savage” community because they are the brute force arm of the fascist state and when they are not propped up “enough” by the government, they close ranks and up their violence. The police are always the enemy of the people, and the demilitarization of all police forces is essential.

[madame-helen]

[queerism1969]

[nando161mando]

System Fail 25: The Urge to Destroy

As humanity recons with a never ending cavalcade of catastrophes, large segments of the population have succumbed to despair or distraction through culture wars or a series of vain cultural phenomena. [Insert Barbenheimer joke here.]

Many youth, particularly in France, have channeled this hopelessness into rage. For the past several months the country had been seeing a series of strikes and riots in response to the raising of the retirement age, and these riots intensified in late June after the police murder of 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk during a traffic stop. As the dust settles, inept politicians blame bad parenting and TikTok.

Meanwhile in Peru, protesters from around the country have gathered in Lima calling for the resignation of President Dina Boluarte and the dissolution of congress.

[aromanticannibal]

if anyone's wondering how France's doing, protesters have burnt a puppet macron (the president we are very mad at him) and the police is as bad as in the USA. we are not ok!

[daughterofdessalines]

Colonizer nations like the U.S., France & the U.K. have prospered from genocide, slavery & the exploitation of BIPOC people. Violence is there only language… this is only way to speak to them.

[workersolidarity]

🇨🇵 Violence Erupts during Protests Against Police Violence in Paris Today

Thousands of demonstrators marched across France today in protest of Police violence.

Unions told French media outlets some 80'000 people marched across France, with at least 15'000 in Paris alone.

Early in the Paris protest, violence broke out as hundreds of radical protestors broke away from the main march and began smashing business and car windows, ATMs and attacked Police cruisers.

At one point, a Police Officer in a cruiser came under attack from protestors smashing the windshield with a crowbar as the officer tried to escape in his vehicle but the road was blocked. The officer then steps out of the cruiser with his gun drawn.

The French Government denounced what it called "unacceptable violence" during the March. "We see where anti-police hatred leads." Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin wrote on X.

The Paris Police Chief Laurent Nunez told reporters three people had been arrested over the incident. Another three were arrested elsewhere in France during similar protest violence.

[the-anxious-dimosiographe-1989]

Paris Protests via and by @onmappellelay

[khaleesiofalicante]

tw: light mention of sa towards the end

i have friends and family living in France and honestly this whole situation is terrifying. the government wants to push the age of retiring from 62 years old to 64 and decrease pensions. the thing is, nobody wants that and they have been multiple protests and strikes against it but the government doesn't give a shit. they are using the article 49.3 to basically overrule the senate and pass the bill despite the country's wish. so they are even more protests and strike, commute is decreasing and students are blocking their schools in protests. the thing is, article 49.3 is supposed to be an exceptional measure and a last resort only. however, since the new government took over in may, it's been used 9 times (i think maybe even more but i'm not sure) so they are clearly ignoring the citizens protests and wishes despite France being a democratic country. also, many secretaries of state among the governement are accused of sexual assault by multiple people and yet they keep doing their job without any consequence which is disgusting

this and exactly this.

[cock-holliday]

Popular Front has put out another great doc -- this time about the French protests

[madame-helen]

[nando161mando]

"The Capitalist-extremist government of France declared the popular habitat defenders "Les Soulèvements de la Terre" (Earth's Uprisings, https://lessoulevementsdelaterre.org/en-eu/blog/nous-sommes-les-soulevements-de-la-terre) to be "dissolved" today.

The group responded with a long statement in French that I haven't seen translated, but here's their final piece of that statement, a picture declaring that "A MOVEMENT CAN NOT BE DISSOLVED".

They don't quit.

But Greta Thunberg made a statement of support in Paris today, saying "This is about the right to protest and it is about the right to defend life" (my back-translation from Swedish news article)."

[phantom-rhythms]

I love seeing the third French Revolution!

[ivovynckier]

Insane riots last night in Roubaix, the French town on the Belgian border. Entire buildings burned to the ground.

I know Roubaix as the town of Georges Delerue, the Mozart of film music. He scored Platoon for Oliver Stone.