r/SipsTea • • 10h ago

Chugging tea Peaceful protests in France today

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u/Careful_Turnip_3197 10h ago

Tf are they protesting? 

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u/AirborneCritter 10h ago edited 9h ago

As people have said, budget for schools and to prevent private education from being the only reliable source of education, as this austerity against public schools and defunds is the idea.

Other than that also the rage from years under a government that very very very rarely listens and imposes austerity through all aspects of life in France, all while the country is economically pretty rich.

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u/PracticalSyllabub514 9h ago

Protests probably started peacefully, the hen the government sent in the riot police to fuck with people, now they're fighting back.

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u/ShoulderWhich5520 8h ago

From what I've gathered the current president (or their equivalent) has been encouraging the use of force on protesters, some incidents under reported include a protesters hand being blown off by a grenade of some kind, choking a 14 year old girl, and smashing a protesters head through a window.

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u/mars-jupiter 3h ago

I mean, I don't see how someone could expect the police to just stand there and do nothing whilst being pelted with rocks, molotovs, chimneys etc and watch a historical town hall building being burned to the ground

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u/disaster_incomin 9h ago

99% of the protest is still peaceful anyway

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u/Environmental_Beat84 8h ago

So it's the police that made them riot and burn. Got it.

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u/secondchancecoastie 9h ago

Found the leftist

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u/g2benji 9h ago

Found the american :D