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06.10.2026.

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Students, teachers and trade unions are gathering across France ahead of today’s protests, with the first school blockades and disruptions to the functioning of educational institutions already reported, BFM TV reported.

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Students at Sophie-Germain High School in Paris’s 4th arrondissement blocked the school entrance early this morning using garbage bins and barriers. Dozens of students, along with smaller organized groups, brought street furniture and blocked the school building.

Police in Paris expect between 20,000 and 40,000 participants in the march, which will proceed from Place de la République to Place de la Nation via Boulevard Voltaire.

In the Rhône department, 15 educational institutions were reported to have disruptions this morning, including Lyon 2 University, the École Normale Supérieure and the Institute of Political Studies.

 

Blockades and access restrictions are currently underway.

At Lyon 2 University, police intervened to disperse a group of masked, hooded individuals who had blocked the tram tracks.

Rallies are also taking place in Strasbourg and Toulon, where teachers and trade unions are supporting the students.

D-Day: Will France go up in flames? PHOTO/VIDEO
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Previously, several trade unions, including the main education unions, called for support for high school students protesting in France, with marches announced across the country and work stoppages at numerous schools.

What are the high school students demanding?

High school students are calling for more resources and raising concerns about unsanitary school buildings, overcrowded classrooms, unfilled positions — particularly in disadvantaged areas — as well as inequalities they say have been created by “Parcoursup,” France’s university admissions platform, BFM TV reported.

The high school students’ union has announced a “third round of mobilization” today, following high school blockades on Monday and an unsuccessful meeting at the Education Ministry on Friday.

The prime minister’s office says the movement has veered toward “urban violence.”

A broad coalition of national education unions — FSU, CGT, FO, CFDT, UNSA, SUD and Solidaires — called on employees today to join the high school students.

The unions said they are seeking greater support for the students’ demands.

CGT and Solidaires called on their members on Friday to take part in the high school students’ Day of Mobilization.

CGT called on its organizations to protect students’ right to mobilize, provide them with spaces to gather, and contribute to the safety of demonstrations.

 

CGT President Sophie Binet said the union’s activists would be present to protect high school students.

The mobilization was also joined by the third-largest farmers’ union, Confédération Paysanne, which called on farmers to join the high school students’ blockades with their tractors.

 
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The union said the demands of the mobilized young people are “just and legitimate,” and at least 10 of its local branches responded to the call, the union confirmed.

In Paris, the march is scheduled to begin at 2 p.m. from Place de la République, while student unions, including the Student Union and UNEF, have also called for action.

At the same time, unions representing workers in the electricity and gas sectors backed away from calls to intensify mobilization against the proposed reform of their preferential energy tariff, saying they had “forced the government to back down.”

In a letter to the unions, signed by Minister Delegate for Energy Maud Bregeon and Labor Minister Jean-Pierre Farandou, the government said that in 2027 it would not introduce changes affecting the pay of active employees in the electricity and gas sectors or the financial resources of retired workers, whether through taxation or social security contributions.

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