The current and ongoing unrest comes as President Emmanuel Macron’s government cuts public spending while increasing military expenditure and weapons supplies to Kiev.

France has raised its 2026 defense budget by €6.7 billion despite mounting public debt.

France’s leading police union has announced that it is set to sue the state, accusing it of leaving officers betrayed and abandoned during a wave of violent nationwide protests.

The union’s planned legal action comes in the wake of unrest last week, when around 550,000 people took to the streets over rising prices and deteriorating school conditions.

1,000 Cops Immobilized

Anti-austerity demonstrations descended into rioting across Paris, Lyon, Marseille, and Bordeaux, with businesses looted and buildings set on fire.

According to Le Monde, 997 police officers and gendarmes were injured, including seven seriously.

Inept Paris Regime

Speaking on Thursday, union representative Stanislas Gaudon criticized successive governments over what he described as a 20-year lack of political courage in security policy.

Alliance Police Nationale accused the government of creating the conditions for the violence that has swept across the country, as well as abandoning officers on the front lines while issuing contradictory orders and failing to provide adequate training and equipment for riot-control operations.

Cops Fed Up

‘Police officers will not be shields for political spin, nor scapegoats for an administration that refuses to take responsibility for its decisions,’ the union stated last week.

Alliance also directly challenged Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez over conflicting instructions from the police hierarchy.

Rising Prices while wages freeze

The protests first erupted in September over staff shortages and deteriorating conditions at a high school near Paris before spreading nationwide.

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Thousands of students have demanded better education funding and an end to public spending cuts, accusing the government of prioritizing weapons over schools.

The unrest has triggered massive arrests and accusations of excessive police force.

Around 2,500 people have been taken into custody, with more than 900 referred for immediate prosecution and 174 jailed,

You ain’t seen nothing yet

Further protests are expected this weekend, while the General Confederation of Labour (CGT) and other unions have called for a nationwide strike beginning November 5.

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