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Students and police clash as France struggles to quell school protests

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Riot police clashed with high school ​students in cities across France on Friday, as President Emmanuel Macron's government battled to contain increasingly violent protests over classroom conditions and funding. The protest movement has forced the closure or disrupted education at more than 560 esta

What the coverage shows

All five outlets frame the story as a widening student protest movement over school conditions, with repeated emphasis on school closures, clashes with police, and large arrest or detention figures. France 24 and The Guardian US foreground scale most strongly, both using counts above 560 disrupted schools and describing violence or “apocalyptic” scenes, while Reuters is the most narrowly focused on a single clash in Pantin. Al Jazeera’s extract is the most explanatory, and The Independent alone highlights protests “morph into unrest” and says thousands of arrests and hundreds of injuries are reported.

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