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Fifty Antifa groups in France join vast network to ensure chaos in weekend protests
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FIRST ON FOX: Some 50 radical Antifa cells in a wider network of nearly 300 groups are mobilizing to ensure this weekend’s demonstrations in France devolve into chaos and mayhem, Fox News Digital has learned.
Self-described Antifa groups are working with a sprawling network of communist, socialist, far-left and anti-Israel groups to mobilize on two fronts this weekend: an «anti-fascist village» against conservative leader Marine Le Pen’s National Rally in the city of Orléans and nationwide protests called Acte II to replicate last week’s violent riots.
A Fox News Digital investigation has mapped 287 groups in France’s expanding protest ecosystem, including 50 explicitly Antifa organizations, 27 explicitly communist, socialist, Trotskyist or revolutionary-left organizations, 24 labor unions and an expanding coalition of far-left anti-Israel, migrant-rights, environmental, feminist, transgender and other activist organizations. The demonstrations, which claim to be about youth education, include just 27 student and youth organizations.
The coordination comes amid a wider transnational campaign of mayhem organized by communist, socialist and leftist groups in Greece, Italy, Spain, India and elsewhere.
Fox News Digital has compiled a running who’s who of organizations in what has been dubbed «Chaos Inc.» and will keep updating the directory.
The size of the mobilization represents a huge expansion from the original 54 organizations identified in last weekend’s riots. The number of Acte II actions has also increased to 649 planned protests, as of early Friday morning in Paris, including at 21 train stations, three ports, two oil depots and one refinery.
Scores of pages of planning documents and social media posts analyzed by Fox News Digital reveal that agitators have laid the groundwork for a coordinated campaign with money, logistics and a communications infrastructure behind their efforts.
A wide coalition of groups, including Antifa organizations, is moving protesters to protests Oct. 24, 2026, in France. (Solidarity March)
The fundraising, transportation, youth outreach, ready-made materials and centralized information hub reveal an organized mobilization operation in place days before protesters even reach the streets with expected hammer-and-sickle and Palestinian flags.
A French administrative court reportedly overturned a ban on street protests issued by Paris police, although the order was not made public and it was unclear if it would have applied to other cities which have imposed similar orders.
Already, organizers have begun planning a next-stage Acte III on Oct. 31, a broader strike and blockade mobilization on Nov. 5 and a Europe-wide action on Nov. 20.
In France, the numbers include signatories to two streams: a Ciao Fachos, or «Good-bye Fascists,» coalition that will descend on Orléans and the Acte II, or «Action 2,» campaign, led by a group called the Yellow Vests that organized last week’s mayhem. Organizations have signed onto a roster and list headed to Orléans.
«Macron must leave and make way for the people!» the Acte II organizers declared, calling «Yellow vests, high school students, university students, workers» into «demonstrations, roundabouts and blockades, everywhere in France.»
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A demonstrator holds an anti-fascist banner at a protest during the 2020 presidential election in New York on Nov. 5, 2020. (Stephanie Keith/Bloomberg)
Last September, after the murder of conservative leader Charlie Kirk by an alleged leftist gunman, President Donald Trump issued an executive order that designated Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization. Soon after, Trump issued National Security Presidential Memorandum 7, targeting far-left groups. It said the «groups and entities that perpetuate this extremism have created a movement that embraces and elevates violence to achieve policy outcomes, including justifying additional assassinations.»
Despite the clear global presence of groups with self-described names of Antifa, former FBI Director Christopher Wray told Congress in 2020 that Antifa was «not a group or an organization» but rather «a movement or an ideology.»
In the U.S., while they will wave flags that say «ANTIFASCIST,» far-left activists don’t typically operate under one formal national organization called «Antifa,» leading to denials that any «Antifa» organization exists.
In Europe, it’s a different story. Activists openly organize under the Antifa name, «antifascist» banners and Antifa flags with emblems of their local chapters, and a Fox News Digital investigation has found a sprawling network mobilizing activists for another weekend of protests.
Last November, the State Department designated four European groups linked to Antifa — Antifa Ost in Germany; the International Revolutionary Front, or Informal Anarchist Federation, in Italy; and Armed Proletarian Justice and Revolutionary Class Self Defense in Greece — as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specifically Designated Global Terrorists, accusing them of organizing or carrying out bombings, shootings and other politically motivated attacks.
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Worldwide, Antifa chapters have built their movement around a seemingly noble opposition to «fascism,» but critics argue that they deploy tactics of threats, intimidation, harassment, violence, destruction and even murder that make them coercive, authoritarian, dangerous and deadly. What’s more, parroting the propaganda language of Russia, China and the Islamic Republic of Iran, «fascism» has become a loaded catch-all phrase to describe Western democracies.
For example, late last year, Neville Roy Singham, an American-born communist tech tycoon living in China, took to the stage at the Golden Tulip Hotel in Shanghai for a «Global South» conference and critiqued the alleged «fascism» of the United States.
Days ago, Fox News Digital reported exclusively that an internal State Department assessment warns that antifascist groups could participate in a «potentially more confrontational protest» this weekend that could «expose further security shortcomings and deepen political tensions.»
Now, the organizations themselves provide a look inside the infrastructure being assembled on the ground.
Speakers stand on a stage during a demonstration against the influence of Vincent Bollore and the far right on culture in front of the Olympia concert hall in Paris, France, on May 30, 2026. Banners reading Antifa and Contre la bataille culturelle de l extreme droite are visible during the rally bringing together activists, trade union members and cultural workers. (Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images)
Free Buses to the «Antifascist Village»
On Friday night, a bus is set to leave Marseille at about 9 p.m. local time for Orléans, in a journey organized by «La Riposte Antifasciste Marseille,» established in October 2023 with a «strategy of massification of anti-fascism.» In its promotion, the pilgrimage leaders tell followers, «Anti-fascism is everyone’s business.» It’s joined by Marseille Unite Communiste Libertaire.
Other organizing materials advertise collective transportation from locations including Paris, Saint-Denis, Stains and Brest.
The logistical preparations provide a more concrete measure of organization than simply finding similar flags or slogans at demonstrations.
A wide coalition of groups, including Antifa organizations, is moving protesters to protests Oct. 24, 2026, in France. (Solidarity March)
On Saturday morning, at 8 a.m., in the city of Bagnolet outside Paris, the Assemblée Antifasciste de Bagnolet, or «Bagnolet Antifascist Assembly» has plans in place to meet at the town hall, Mairie de Bagnolet, on Rue Hoche for a two-hour ride to Orléans. Its online sign-up sheet advertises 50 free seats.
La Marche des Solidarites, or «The March for Solidarity,» an online hub, directs supporters in the Paris region to buses leaving from Saturday morning from Place de la République in Saint-Denis and Stains with #NousToutes and Carré Citoyen.
On Instagram, Saint-Denis Antifa, Carre Citoyen and Marche des Solidarites are sending people to a fundraising page on the Solidaire website, where organizers have raised about $13,300 for expenses for the Saturday action, including the «printing of mobilization materials: leaflets, posters, etc.» and a «truck/sound system for a large procession of the solidarity march.»
The Saint-Denis Antifa also made crêpes last week at the Saint-Denis Hip-Hop Festival to raise money for the protest.
An Antifa flag and a banner reading «ANTIFA for as long as it takes» during the International Day Against Racism in Paris on March 22, 2025. (Thierry Nectoux/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
And organizers have centralized the machinery for mobilization online. Adults are facilitating space for high-school students, telling them, «free places are for you.»
The Marche des Solidarités online repository on antiracisme-solidarite.org describes itself as a place containing «all the information to mobilize,» including «calls, signatories, visuals, etc.»
Ciao Fachos has gone further. Its organizing documents call for «tractages, collages, réunions publiques, récoltes de fonds, transports collectifs» — distributing leaflets, putting up posters, holding public meetings, fundraising and organizing collective transportation.
The group also urges activists to prevent National Rally supporters from distributing literature at markets or putting posters on walls.
The network has also advertised Signal channels, much like far-left activists have done in the U.S., to swap information and coordinate logistics.
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Masked protesters hold a banner reading «Autonomous antifa» during a demonstration of high-school students as part of a nationwide protest movement over learning conditions in Lyon, France, on Oct. 6, 2026. (Olivier Chassignole/AFP via Getty Images)
A Two-Day Orléans Antifa Operation
The schedule is carefully organized with Antifa groups like Loiret Antifasciste, which is promoting a detailed program. The group’s own declaration describes the objective as larger than opposing a single National Rally convention.
Building a «mouvement antifasciste,» or «antifascist movement,» is a «collective responsibility,» the organization says, calling for a united political front.
For Saturday, organizers advertise:
- 10:30 a.m. — A demonstration beginning near the Cathédrale Sainte-Croix d’Orléans, including a «Ciao Fachos» procession.
- 1 p.m. — An «antifascist village» at Campo Santo with food, political roundtables and other activities, including a plan to «parade together behind a common banner» of «anti-racism» and «anti-fascism.»
- Evening — Food, concerts and accommodations for activists.
A wide coalition of groups, including Antifa organizations, is moving protesters to protests Oct. 24, 2026, in France. (Solidarity March)
On Sunday, Ciao Fachos advertised another demonstration toward CO’Met, the location of the National Rally gathering.
The Association France Palestine Solidarité says its members will participate in a Palestinian contingent during Saturday’s demonstration and operate a stand at the antifascist village until 10 p.m. Protest leaders chose the last protest date of Oct. 17 to memorialize a protest on the same day in 1961 when a protest by Algerian «martyrs» turned deadly in Paris.
Organizations include Urgence Palestine Orléans, AGIR POUR LA PALESTINE, Union juive française pour la paix, migrant-rights organizations including FASTI, Droits Devant!!, Coordination Sans-Papiers 75, La Cimade Aix-en-Provence, Tous Réfugiés, GASPROM-ASTI Nantes, ASTI Orléans, the Association des Travailleurs Maghrébins de France and UJFP, the French Jewish Union for Peace, which is promoting the demonstration.
The CGT Paris, the Paris branch of one of France’s largest labor confederations, is also organizing transportation to the demonstration and published the Loiret Antifaciste coalition’s call for an antifascist movement.
Solidaires 37, the Indre-et-Loire branch of the left-wing labor federation, is organizing pay-what-you-can transportation from Tours.
The coalition lists demonstrate how explicitly antifascist organizations operate inside a considerably larger political coalition.
A wide coalition of groups, including Antifa organizations, is moving protesters to protests Oct. 24, 2026, in France. (Solidarity March)
Antifa Joins ‘Acte II’
The Orléans demonstration isn’t the only place explicit Antifa organizations are mobilizing Saturday.
Fox News Digital separately identified antifascist groups attached directly to local Acte II demonstrations.
In Angoulême, Action Antifasciste 16, also known as Action AntiFa16, appears as an official collaborator on an Oct. 24 Acte II announcement alongside NPA Charente, Révolution Permanente Angoulême, Maison des Peuples et de la Paix, Fanfare en lutte d’Angoulême and Organisation de Solidarité Trans Angoulême.
In the city of Caen, the «Caen Antifa Squad» appears as a collaborator on another announcement explicitly advertising «ACTE II — 24 OCTOBRE.»
The presence of Antifa groups provides a connective point between the nationwide Yellow Vest mobilization and the antifascist ecosystem.
One of the figures attempting to bring the different grievances together is Benjamin Ball, editor of the website coordinating the Yellow Vest action map.
«Our role is to make sure that the social anger aggregates,» Ball recently told French media, saying organizers want representatives of different sectors received at the Élysée.
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Communists, Socialists and Antifa
French Antifa activism substantially overlaps with anarchist, communist, anticapitalist and revolutionary-socialist networks whose organizations frequently cooperate in demonstrations and campaigns.
The Oct. 24 coalition illustrates those connections.
Union Communiste Libertaire, a libertarian-communist organization advocating revolutionary political change, has joined the mobilization.
The revolutionary socialist Nouveau Parti anticapitaliste, or NPA, is promoting the Orléans demonstration. Its publication «L’Anticapitaliste» reported that dozens of organizations were mobilizing against the RN congress.
La France Insoumise, the French Communist Party, Union pour la Reconstruction Communiste and Le Poing Levé appear in the wider local coalition.
The coalition also includes labor organizations, environmental activists and student groups, such as Fédération Syndicale Étudiante, a left-wing student union already involved in France’s October student revolt, is joining the mobilization.
Extinction Rebellion France is represented through its Île-de-France organization. Its agitators rappelled the Marianne statue and hoisted a vest with an anti-police message, creating the iconic image used for the next phase of activation.
And the coalition includes feminist organizations such as NousToutes, whose current social-media material is promoting transportation to Orléans and mobilization resources.
The Solidaires union’s booth at an anti-fascist rally organized in response to the C9M’s annual neo-fascist demonstration, held at Place du Pantheon in Paris, France, on May 8, 2026. Activists, students and left-wing organizations took part in the demonstration in central Paris. (Djoudi Hamani/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images)
Labor Unions Move Activists to Orléans with Antifa
Organized labor is providing another piece of the mobilization infrastructure.
Along with CGT Paris and Solidaires 37, the expanded roster includes CNT Fédération Éducation, CNT 49, CNT Education 93, SNETAP-FSU, Solidaires 44, Solidaires 35, SUD Protection Sociale 93 and CGT ArianeGroup Issac, among other labor organizations.
VISA 93, part of the Vigilance et Initiatives Syndicales Antifascistes labor-antifascist network, has promoted union transportation for the demonstration.
Meanwhile, as Antifa and other leftist agitators readied for the weekend, French authorities arrested a 34-year-old man, Hodei Docampo Ciarra, this week in the town of Val d’Issoire (Haute-Vienne). Police suspect him of being one of the rioters who devastated City Hall in Limoges, torching the building.
French police said he was allegedly involved in the «ultra-left.»
They arrested the man, 34, at about 6:15 a.m. as he got out of bed at his parents’ home.
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EXCLUSIVE: Fed timeline challenges reports of migrant baby facing immigration judge alone
FIRST ON FOX: A federal timeline provided by officials overseeing unaccompanied migrant children challenges reports that a 1-year-old boy was left to navigate immigration court without counsel, showing that legal service providers intervened to secure representation following an initial hearing.
Addressing media reports highlighting toddlers appearing before immigration judges, Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) Acting Director Angie Salazar and Senior Advisor John Fabbricatore pushed back on headlines alleging systemic gaps in child legal representation, arguing that contractor failures and lack of invoice oversight created the initial court lapses.
«We don’t have this big movement where we have a bunch of 1-year-olds who are going to court,» Fabbricatore told Digital.
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According to ORR timeline records obtained by Digital, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers first encountered the 1-year-old boy and his 17-year-old mother near Naco, Arizona, on June 25. The child was accompanied by his mother at all court proceedings.
The critical gap occurred in July under the agency’s former contractor, the Acacia Center for Justice, records show.
On July 1, Acacia completed legal orientation and consultation for the mother and child, but failed to file an E28 notice of appearance before the immigration court.
Consequently, during the child’s first scheduled court hearing on July 8, no attorney was present — not even as a friend of the court — despite Acacia holding an active federal legal services contract at the time. The federal legal services contract with Acacia officially ended July 31.
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Following the end of the Acacia contract, the agency transitioned legal service oversight to the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI), which officially initiated legal services Aug. 5. During an Aug. 7 appearance, the mother and child were granted additional time to obtain counsel, while USCRI representatives attended subsequent hearings on Aug. 17 and Aug. 28 as a friend of the court.
On Aug. 31, a motion was filed by the friend of the court and mother requesting court-appointed counsel at government expense, which was later denied by the immigration judge.
Progress continued into September as child advocates were officially appointed on Sept. 23, and USCRI filed a formal E28 notice of appearance on Sept. 25 to become the attorney of record. On Sept. 29, USCRI officially represented both mother and child in immigration court. The judge subsequently granted a continuance on Oct. 2, leading into a follow-up hearing scheduled for Friday.
Officials explained that the July breakdowns highlighted the core reason the administration terminated Acacia’s multimillion-dollar contract, which was awarded under the Biden administration in November 2023. According to federal contract records on USAspending.gov, the Department of Health and Human Services had awarded the Acacia Center for Justice a $356.3 million bridge contract for legal services for unaccompanied children. Of that total award, more than $236.9 million had been outlaid prior to the contract’s dissolution.
The network previously provided counsel to roughly 20,000 migrant children across the U.S., according to its website.
«I knew we were signing off on every invoice that we were receiving for legal services to the tune of $20-plus million sometimes each month,» she told Digital. «So it made no sense to me that legal service providers were saying kids were unrepresented for a lack of funding.»
«I tried to understand who was represented before,» she added. «I tried to understand what we were paying for under this direct representation, but the invoices we received were completely redacted. There is no way I could ever know exactly what service was provided during the month.»
Digital has reached out to the Acacia Center for Justice for comment. The contract funded a slew of services, including legal screenings, representations and presentations on the rights of migrant children in detention.
Following the dissolution of the Acacia contract, the ORR entered into a $20 million contract with USCRI, which expires Dec. 31.
«So USCRI was showing up in court as a friend of the court to ensure that there was at least somebody present in case Acacia did not show up,» Fabbricatore said. «Now, as those cases are being looked at, USCRI is able to go in and actually meet with these children and then represent them in a follow-up hearing. So there may be some hearings where a child shows up, and initially they don’t have representation, but USCRI will be there, identify that child, and then be able to move forward in the future as a representative for that child.»
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Salazar emphasized that ORR officials track which children are represented by which lawyers on specific dates, noting that the agency respects attorney-client privilege.
«The former provider refused to give us those measurables,» Fabbricatore said. «They refused to give us the alien registration number so we could determine what cases they were actually representing. They didn’t want to give that. They refused to give that, and that was a holdup for us because we needed to know who was actually being represented so we can ensure that every kid at least had their legal orientation and had a legal representative that was talking to them.»
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Salazar noted that about 2% of migrant children in ORR custody are under the age of 5. Another 85% are ages 13 to 17, with 62% falling into the 16-to-17 bracket.
«What we said to our new grantee (USCRI): ‘We want you in 100% of the hearings where kids in our care are showing up to their immigration hearings,’» she said. «That is happening. I think we’re at like 98%.»
Fabbricatore added there are currently 1,690 migrant children in ORR custody.
«Under Biden, they had 22,000 in care a day. So it’s a very vast difference,» he said. «We’ve been able to lower that census, get kids through the court process quicker, and get them back with their parents if possible.»
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Serbia’s longtime leader faces biggest political test as students mount election challenge
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Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic resigned from the presidency in September and is running for prime minister in parliamentary elections considered to be one of the most competitive elections for Serbia in recent memory.
«I think this is certainly the biggest challenge for the former President in his 14-year rule,» Helena Ivanov, associate fellow at the Henry Jackson Society, told Fox News Digital.
«The student protesters have been able to capture the hearts and minds of people and keep the momentum going in a way that the established opposition was never able to do,» Ivanov added.
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Serbia’s former president and the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) candidate for prime minister, Aleksandar Vucic, gestures during a pre-election rally at King Milan Square in Nis, Serbia, Oct. 21, 2026. (Djordje Kojadinovic/Reuters)
Serbian Foreign Minister Marko Djuric told Fox News Digital that he believes the student opposition is highly unlikely to win.
«The people of Serbia have seen through them: years of criticism have not persuaded the public that they have a credible program or a serious plan for the country’s future,» the foreign minister said.
Djuric touted Serbia’s economy under Vucic and the Strategic Dialogue with the U.S., which he said will foster greater cooperation and new opportunities for Serbs.
In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital in June when he was still president, Vucic pointed to the country’s economic growth as evidence of its transformation. «Our GDP was 32 billion (euros) when I became the prime minister,» Vucic said. «This year it’s going to be over 100 billion euros, which is $120 billion.» Vucic first became prime minister in 2014 and president in 2017.
In that same interview, he said the improving relationship between Washington and Belgrade was increasingly centered on economics, investment and technological cooperation and mutual conservative values.
A bipartisan group of senators led by Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa., and Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., introduced the Supporting the Rule of Law, Building Institutional Justice, and Accountability Act (SRBIJA) to address democratic backsliding in Serbia, promote the rule of law and accountability and improve the treatment of student-led civic protests.
Most importantly, the legislation would condition future aid on a presidential certification that Serbia made «significant and sustained» efforts toward judicial accountability, press freedom and alignment with the EU and NATO.
The bipartisan group of lawmakers, which also included Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., and Rep. William Keating, D-Mass., took aim at President Vucic and his time in power.
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People walk on a bridge with a huge poster of Serbia’s former president and the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) candidate for prime minister, Aleksandar Vucic, on it in Nis, Serbia, Oct. 10, 2026. (Marko Djurica/Reuters)
There are growing concerns from Congress and observers that the election will take place in a hostile environment and efforts to discredit and undermine the election are already underway.
Others fear the current government might not respect the outcome of the election if the Student List were to win.
Vucic had served as president of Serbia since 2017 and previously as prime minister from 2014 to 2017, but was term limited under the constitution. His exit from the presidency created the opportunity for him to remain in power by returning as prime minister.
Vucic resigned from the presidency and dissolved parliament in September, setting the stage for the snap election on Oct. 25.
As president, analysts say he has always straddled the geopolitical line between East and West, seeking European legitimacy and launching EU accession talks in 2014 while also maintaining close ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin even after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Unlike previous elections, the student-led opposition garnered significant attention to their cause and mobilized popular support, becoming a legitimate political contender out of a spontaneous protest movement.
Serbia has been roiled by student-led anti-corruption protests since November 2024, demanding justice and accountability after the deaths of 16 people following the collapse of a railway station in the town of Novi Sad. One of the largest protests in Serbia’s history took place on March 15, 2025, with nearly 350,000 people gathered in Slavija Square in central Belgrade.
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Students walk on the road towards the northern city of Novi Sad, where they will participate in a 24-hour block of three bridges to protest the deaths of 15 people killed in the November collapse of a train station canopy, near the Belgrade suburb of Batajnica, Serbia, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
The protesters criticized the Vucic government for failing to hold anyone accountable for the canopy disaster as the government continued its heavy-handed crackdown on demonstrators. None of the original demands of the protesters were met, so the students turned to electoral politics to enact change the Serbian political opposition was never able to achieve.
The Student List, as the opposition is known, consists of a wide swath of civil society actors, many of whom come from the ranks of academia, but does not include anyone from Serbia’s traditional opposition parties that struggled to challenge Vucic and his ruling Serbian Progressive Party in the past.
The group operates in a decentralized manner and does not have an official leader. Their main priorities are to tackle corruption and promote transparency and the rule of law.
Filip Ubović, a student from the University of Belgrade and protest participant on the ground in Belgrade, has spoken with Fox News Digital over the course of the year-long protests.
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Ilija Srdanovic, first on the electoral list «Student List — Students Win» waves to citizens as they welcome students who walked to the capital from different parts of the country a day before their final campaign rally in Belgrade, Serbia, Oct. 21, 2026. (Marko Djurica/Reuters)
Ubović said he joined the protests because he was fed up with the current state of his country. This was the first opportunity, Ubovic said, to do something tangible, instead of just complaining.
«People had enough for quite some time but decided to fully embrace us because we are ‘their kids’, we are young, we are not professional politicians, we do not have a single face representing us, and we are very professional and principled,» Ubovic said.
Ivana Stradner of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies told Fox News Digital that corruption has held back democracy in the Balkans and progress for its people for a while.
«Corruption doesn’t just steal public money; it steals an entire generation’s future. Young people in Serbia and Albania are taking to the streets demanding accountability and a better future. The U.S. should pay attention, not out of charity, but strategic self-interest,» Stradner said.
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Parliamentary candidates on the «Student List — Students Win» student list attend a final campaign rally in Belgrade, Serbia, Oct. 22, 2026. (Djordje Kojadinovic/Reuters)
The test will be whether the Student List can transition their popular mobilization in the streets into a viable political option that can win an election and govern a country that hasn’t undergone a political transition in over a decade.
It’s also unclear, if the Student List were to win, how they might reorient Serbia’s foreign policy and its relations with the U.S.
«So far, the students have been remarkably reluctant to define foreign policy goals that would depart from the current government’s course. For now, the most realistic expectation is continuity,» Sinisa Vukovic, director of the Global Policy Program at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, told Fox News Digital.
Vuković said that Serbia’s foreign policy has remained mostly consistent dating back to Slobodan Milosevic, the former leader of Yugoslavia, and the Vucic government has left hot-button issues including the crisis over Kosovo and EU membership mostly unresolved.
While much might change in Serbia domestically, any resolution to the conflict with Kosovo or any substantial reorientation of foreign policy that shifts Serbia away from Russia and moves it much closer to the U.S. and EU remains unclear.
«Another period of pseudo-hedging is likely, with Russia keeping a deep presence in the most vital sectors and dominating most of them,» Vukovic added.
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Un jubilado encontró una colección de cartas Pokémon olvidada en el altillo, la subastó y se volvió millonario
Un pintor profesional jubilado se convirtió en millonario después de vender una colección de cartas Pokémon en una subasta que rompió récords en el Reino Unido.
El hombre, que prefirió mantener su identidad en reserva, había guardado los mazos en el altillo de su casa durante 15 años, sin imaginar el tesoro que tenía.
La historia comenzó cuando leyó en el diario local que una sola carta Pokémon se había vendido por más de £6.000 (unos 8000 dólares). Intrigado, decidió revisar la propia colección familiar, que había empezado a reunir a fines de los años 90, cuando su hijo intercambiaba cartas en la escuela. “Sé que siempre se habla de encontrar un tesoro en el altillo, pero en mi caso fue literalmente así”, contó.
El miércoles, la casa de subastas Ewbank’s vendió el lote completo por £1,56 millones (más de dos millones de dólares), en lo que describieron como la subasta de cartas coleccionables más valiosa de la historia británica y posiblemente un récord europeo.
Cartas intactas y sets completos: el secreto del éxito
El hombre había comprado varios sets completos a un vendedor de Malasia a través de eBay, y los conservó en carpetas especiales, selladas y en perfecto estado. Uno de esos sets, que le costó £300 (400 dólares) en su momento, se vendió por £75.000 (US$100.000) en la subasta.
“Pensé que sería más barato comprar la colección completa que seguir comprando sobres sellados con cartas al azar con la esperanza de completarla al abrirlos”, explicó-
Su hijo nunca llegó a tocar esas cartas: “Él tenía las suyas, pero estas las guardé aparte, y por suerte fue así”, comentó el jubilado.
La colección incluía 42 sets en total, todos en condiciones impecables. El lote más destacado fue el Legendary Collection Complete Master Set, que tenía una carta de Charizard casi nueva. Aunque se esperaba que alcanzara entre £15.000 y £20.000, finalmente se vendió por £100.000 (US$134.000).
Un fenómeno global y la fiebre de la nostalgia
La subasta generó un “increíble” entusiasmo, según James Spooner, jefe de trading cards de la caa de subasta Ewbank’s. “Cuando vimos lo que tenía, todo en estado impecable, no lo podíamos creer”, aseguró.
“Cuando descubrimos que tenía 42 juegos de esos, nos quedamos boquiabiertos. Vendimos 41 y él se quedó con uno”, agregó.
El evento atrajo a compradores de todo el mundo y se convirtió en la venta más exitosa de la casa en más de 30 años. Andrew Ewbank, responsable de la subasta, confesó que después del remate necesitó “irse a dormir una siesta” por la intensidad del momento.
“Pensábamos que podría llegar a las 270.000 libras, pero cuando empezaron a llegar las pujas previas a la subasta nos dimos cuenta de que teníamos entre manos algo mucho más importante”, sostuvo Spooner. “El día antes de la subasta ya teníamos 825.000 libras en pujas por encargo”, detalló.
Ewbank explicó que el furor por Pokémon está en auge porque quienes crecieron con la franquicia en los 90 ahora tienen entre 30 y 40 años y mayor poder adquisitivo. “La nostalgia es una parte fundamental. Se trata de revivir esos recuerdos de la infancia”, afirmó.
El récord anterior para una colección de Pokémon en el Reino Unido era de £872.000 (US$1.167.00), alcanzado en octubre en Londres, pero la venta de Woking lo superó ampliamente.
El consejo del subastador: revisar el altillo puede cambiar la vida
El propio Ewbank animó a quienes tengan objetos guardados a revisarlos: “Si compraste algo para tu hijo y no lo quiso, quizás convenga guardarlo, porque nunca se sabe el valor que puede tener en el futuro”.
La historia del jubilado de Woking es un ejemplo de cómo un simple hobby puede transformarse en una fortuna inesperada, gracias a la pasión de los coleccionistas y el poder de la nostalgia.
Reino Unido, pokemón, cartas, Subasta, millonario
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