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France’s teen riots take explosive new turn as government points finger at hard left
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Violent student unrest intensified across France on Friday as riot police clashed with teenagers in several cities, roughly 400 high schools remained shuttered and authorities said some 2,000 people had been arrested since the protests began — while the government increasingly blamed the country’s hard left.
Tear gas filled streets in Strasbourg, protesters fired fireworks toward police lines in Marseille, and garbage bins were set ablaze in Rennes, while clashes also broke out in Paris, Reuters reported Friday. The latest violence marks a sharp escalation from the unrestt reported by Fox News Digital Thursday, when hundreds had been arrested as school blockades and clashes spread across the country.
Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin told RTL radio Friday that approximately 2,000 people — most of them teenagers — had been arrested since the protests erupted. He said parents whose children damage property should be required to pay reparations, according to Reuters.
«In the streets, the children are in danger,» Education Minister Édouard Geffray told BFM TV.
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A protesting student feeds a burnt barrier during a blockading action outside the secondary school Le Corbusier, in Aubervilliers, northern Paris on October 1, 2026. Since late September, students have staged protests outside schools over grievances ranging from timetables, class sizes and a shortage of teachers to overheated classrooms during this year’s heatwaves. The protests started in the Ile-de-France region around Paris but have now spread to other cities nationwide. (Photo by LOU BENOIST / AFP via Getty Images)
Euronews reported Friday that at least 65 school staff members, including 40 principals, have been injured since the unrest began, along with roughly 170 students. More than 100 high schools have suffered what Geffray described as «severe damage.»
The protests began over complaints about overcrowded classrooms, teacher shortages, long school days and deteriorating facilities. Students have blamed years of underinvestment for conditions inside schools, as the government unveiled its draft 2027 budget Thursday. Under the proposal, education spending would rise 1.7% to 65.53 billion euros, excluding teacher pensions — an increase below the rate of inflation, according to Reuters.
But as the protests have grown more violent, the unrest has also become a major political fight.
French intelligence agencies told a government crisis meeting Thursday that the protest movement had been initiated by politicians from the hard-left France Unbowed Party, known as LFI, Reuters reported Friday.
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Students clash with police during ongoing student protest action, in Lyon, central eastern France, on Oct. 1, 2026. Since late September, students have staged protests outside schools over grievances ranging from timetables, class sizes and a shortage of teachers to overheated classrooms during this year’s heatwaves. The protests started in the Ile-de-France region around Paris but have now spread to other cities nationwide. (Alex Martin AFP via Getty Images)
LFI lawmakers rejected the allegation and accused President Emmanuel Macron’s government of politicizing the protests ahead of France’s 2027 presidential election.
Le Monde reported Friday that Geffray accused LFI of fueling the initial demonstrations before saying the movement had been «taken hostage by ultra-left groups.» LFI leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon has denied responsibility for the violence.
Simone Rodan-Benzaquen, senior envoy to Europe at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Fox News Digital on Thursday that the unrest began with legitimate concerns but has since evolved into something far more serious.
«The students’ grievances about missing teachers and deteriorating schools were real at first,» Rodan-Benzaquen said. «But dousing a principal in gasoline and attacking firefighters are acts of extreme violence. What makes this politically significant is the effort to turn frustration over schools into a much broader confrontation with the government.»
Protesters burned trash cans and plastic containers near a campus in the Paris suburb of Pantin, where students blocked the gates outside Berthelot High School. Riot police used tear gas, while protesters threw firecrackers in return on Oct 2, 2026. (Reuters)
The protests are quickly becoming a major issue in the campaign to succeed Macron next May, with Mélenchon denouncing the government’s response as repressive. Rodan-Benzaquen said LFI has «actively supported the mobilization,» adding that «activists circulate footage of clashes, party accounts amplify it and elected officials present themselves as the students’ defenders.»
«With an election next year,» she said, «Mélenchon sees these mobilizations as a way to consolidate young voters and marginalize the moderate left. At a time of deep political, geopolitical and economic challenges, this is a very dangerous situation for France.»
Marine Le Pen also accused LFI of playing a direct role in the unrest. «This is no longer about high school student protests. It is about riots organized by professionals and overseen by deputies from La France Insoumise,» Le Pen wrote on X in a translated post. «We must pass a new anti-rioters law so that participation in a riot is a clearly identified offense.»
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French high school students gather outside the Lycee Voltaire high school as part of nationwide protests to demand the hiring of substitute teachers, increased resources and better learning conditions, in Paris, as more than 400 schools remain closed following days of student protests that have escalated into violence in some places, France, October 2, 2026. (Sarah Meyssonnier/Reuters)
The government has now deployed specialized riot police and mobile gendarmes as authorities struggle to contain the unrest, Le Monde reported.
The government’s response is also drawing scrutiny. Students and rights groups have accused police of excessive force against minors, including the use of batons, tear gas and non-lethal weapons. Amnesty International warned against excessive force, while France’s Interior Ministry said Friday that three investigations into alleged police violence had been opened, according to Reuters.
The unrest may also be beginning to spread beyond France. Students in Liège, Belgium, began demonstrating Thursday, and high schools there were closed Friday.
Masked protesters install a barricade amid clashes with police during a protest by high school students near the Lycee Berthelot high school in Aubervilliers near Paris as part of nationwide protests to demand the hiring of substitute teachers, increased resources and better learning conditions, as more than 400 schools remain closed following days of student protests that have escalated into violence in some places, France, October 2, 2026. The slogan on the placard reads «Same studies, but not the same rights.» (Sarah Meyssonnier/Reuters)
Fox News Digital reached out to the French government, the Education Ministry, the Interior Ministry and La France Insoumise for comment but did not receive responses in time for publication.
Tyler Speicher and Reuters contributed to this story.
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Minnesota candidate ‘stress tests’ state’s new fraud law — what she found raised major red flags
A Minnesota state Senate candidate revealed she found several vulnerabilities in a fraud prevention law signed by Gov. Tim Walz after testing it against the state’s previous fraud scandals to see whether it could have caught them sooner.
The measure in question, the Office of the Inspector General law, creates an independent statewide watchdog that oversees inspectors general, investigates alleged fraud across state programs, establishes fraud prevention standards, and improves coordination and data sharing.
However, Heidi Heino, the Republican candidate for Minnesota’s 36th Senate District, told Digital her test against the Feeding Our Future scheme and other past fraud cases found the law lacks extra safeguards when potential risks emerge.
«When I stress tested against Feeding Our Future and some of the other fraud schemes that we had in Minnesota, it would have found the fraud eventually, but it’s way after the money was already gone and we would still be stuck trying to claw it back,» Heino said.
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The law was passed as Minnesota faces the fallout from massive fraud schemes involving childcare, autism, housing and disability services. Republicans have blamed leadership and oversight failures, while the Trump administration launched a federal anti-fraud task force led by Vice President JD Vance.
Working as a corporate leader whose day job involves underwriting, Heino said she used similar review and auditing practices to test where Minnesota’s fraud safeguards fell short.
«Business does a lot with a little,» she said. «Government does the opposite. They do a little with a lot of resources.»
Heino said she used a 2,800% increase in payments to Feeding Our Future from 2020 to 2021 in her test, a jump that should have automatically raised alarm bells and led to further review. The scheme alone allegedly stole $250 million from a federally funded child nutrition program during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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«You don’t have to be a detective to see that there’s some issue there and so to investigate that and check and see if those claims are legitimate, and if they were legitimate, have someone actually sign off on it,» she said, adding that filling out extra paperwork may be frustrating but can help prevent fraud in the long run.
Heino also argued Feeding Our Future should not have been allowed to address complaints against itself.
«We had 30 complaints to the Minnesota Department of Education regarding the fraud and they are mostly overlooked or Feeding Our Future had to go correct itself and that was a huge gap there,» she said.
She proposed immediately freezing payments, conducting a full review, and triggering an outside audit.
«The OIG has good bones, but it needs teeth,» she said.
Without independent audits, Heino said Minnesota will not be able to uncover fraud-related gaps, saying the additional oversight would save more money than it costs.
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«We get a lot of pushback saying this is going to be expensive, but is it?» she said. «It will be less expensive to have an independent audit than it is going to be to have all the fraud and lose taxpayer dollars to fraudulent activities.»
Those same issues apply to current state programs like Minnesota’s Paid Leave program, according to Heino.
«However, we need to rein it in and have more investigation before we start sending out the checks, especially with paid family leave,» she said. «They pay out before they have the doctor’s note certifying that this is actually true and they have verified it.»
She acknowledged that the law is a «great first step» toward addressing the problem but said it does not go far enough to protect taxpayers and prevent future fraud.
As a mother, grandmother and taxpayer, Heino said she is fed up with how leaders in her home state have handled fraud, adding the problem has gotten so bad that Minnesota has become the «laughing stock of the nation» and people no longer want to say they are from the state anymore.
«We need to funnel those resources to the people that actually need them and keep people committing fraud from taking our money and running away with it, buying luxury condos or homes, and then funneling it out of the country,» she said.
Digital reached out to Walz’s office and the Minnesota Department of Education for comment.
«We have not slowed down, there is no sense in which the fraud has been stopped in Minnesota,» Bill Glahn, a policy fellow at the Center of the American Experiment, told Digital in August, making the case that the fraud situation in the state has not been properly addressed.
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Apenas el 3,2% de los glaciares del planeta —aquellos que desembocan en lagos, océanos o plataformas de hielo— fue responsable de más de la mitad de toda la masa glaciar perdida entre 2000 y 2019, con una tasa de 134.000 millones de toneladas métricas anuales. La cifra, publicada en la revista Nature Communications, proviene de la clasificación global de glaciares más completa realizada hasta la fecha, elaborada por científicos de la Universidad de Birmingham y la Universidad de Leeds, en Reino Unido.
El equipo examinó los 216.502 glaciares inventariados en el Randolph Glacier Inventory (RGI), sin contar las capas de hielo de Groenlandia y la Antártida, y determinó en qué tipo de entorno termina cada uno: tierra firme, lago, océano o plataforma de hielo. La conclusión más llamativa apunta a los glaciares lacustres, que perdieron hielo un 57% más rápido en proporción a su superficie que los que terminan en tierra.
Los glaciares lacustres pierden hielo a un ritmo desproporcionado
Aunque los glaciares que no terminan en tierra firme representan una fracción mínima del total (1,6% en lagos, 1,5% en océanos y 0,1% en plataformas), cubren en conjunto más de la mitad de la superficie glaciar mundial. Esa desproporción se acentúa al medir las pérdidas de masa: los glaciares lacustres concentraron el 24% del hielo perdido a escala global, y los marinos otro 22,8%, mientras que los terrestres —el 96,8% del total— aportaron el 49,4% restante.
Para aislar el efecto del entorno de desembocadura, los investigadores aplicaron modelos estadísticos que controlaron variables como el clima, la elevación, el espesor del hielo y la pendiente. Los resultados revelaron que los glaciares que terminan en lagos fluyen en promedio un 10% más rápido que los terrestres, y los marinos un 44% más rápido. Pero la diferencia más marcada apareció en la pérdida de masa normalizada por superficie: los lacustres superaron a los terrestres en un 57%.
El agua de los lagos puede acelerar el desprendimiento del hielo
Los lagos interactúan con los glaciares de formas que pueden intensificar su deterioro. El agua lacustre derrite el hielo por debajo de la línea de flotación y facilita el desprendimiento de grandes bloques desde el frente glaciar, un proceso conocido como calving. Además, la presión que ejercen sobre la base del glaciar puede reducir la fricción y favorecer un deslizamiento más rápido.
“Los glaciares que terminan en lagos realmente se destacan: están perdiendo hielo de manera particularmente rápida. Todavía no sabemos exactamente por qué. Podría ser por los propios lagos, por el tamaño y la forma de los glaciares, o una combinación de ambos”, explicó Joe Mallalieu, quien realizó la investigación en la Universidad de Birmingham y actualmente trabaja en la Universidad de Leeds.
A diferencia de los glaciares marinos, donde las corrientes oceánicas y mareas generan una ablación frontal más eficiente, los lagos proglaciales tienen volúmenes reducidos e intercambio limitado de agua, lo que podría permitirles almacenar calor estacional con mayor facilidad y transferirlo directamente a la masa de hielo.
El cambio climático está transformando los glaciares de un tipo a otro
Un hallazgo adicional del estudio es que el calentamiento global está provocando transiciones entre categorías de glaciares. En el Ártico, algunos glaciares marinos retroceden hasta apoyarse sobre tierra firme, lo que según los datos debería desacelerar su pérdida de masa. En dirección opuesta, la proliferación de lagos glaciares en todo el mundo convierte glaciares terrestres en lacustres, con la consecuencia potencial de que aceleren su deterioro.
“La última década ha traído un enorme aumento en los datos globales sobre glaciares y clima disponibles para los investigadores. Unir estos conjuntos de datos nos permite comparar cómo se comportan los glaciares en distintos entornos. A medida que más glaciares pasen de un entorno a otro, comprender esas diferencias será cada vez más importante”, señaló Nicholas Barrand, de la Universidad de Birmingham.
Los modelos actuales no representan bien los glaciares lacustres
Gran parte de los modelos utilizados para proyectar la evolución de los glaciares y el aumento del nivel del mar aún no incorporan de forma adecuada la dinámica de los glaciares que terminan en lagos. El inventario presentado por el equipo podría contribuir a corregir esa carencia, al ofrecer una base de datos global y pública —disponible en Zenodo— que permite distinguir entre los cuatro tipos de entorno terminal.
Un estudio complementario publicado este año en Communications Earth & Environment ya había demostrado que los lagos proglaciales del margen de la capa de hielo de Groenlandia aceleran la velocidad de los glaciares circundantes en un 231% en la zona del frente, con efectos detectables hasta 3,5 kilómetros tierra adentro. Otra investigación reciente, del Journal of Glaciology, confirmó que los glaciares que terminan en agua —ya sea marina o lacustre— son sistemáticamente más gruesos que los terrestres, lo que equivale a cerca del 20% del volumen glaciar mundial fuera de las capas de hielo.
La clasificación elaborada por Mallalieu y sus colegas abarcó datos de velocidad de flujo del hielo (2017-2018), registros de cambio de masa (2000-2019) e inventarios de lagos glaciares que cubren el período 2000-2018. Entre las regiones con mayor concentración de glaciares lacustres figuran la periferia de Groenlandia, el oeste de Canadá y Estados Unidos, el sur del Ártico canadiense, Asia Central y los Andes del Sur, donde el glaciar Perito Moreno en Argentina constituye uno de los ejemplos más conocidos de interacción entre hielo y lago.
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Protestas en Europa: por qué la Generación Z sale a las calles y cuáles son los reclamos que amenazan la estabilidad de la región
El mapa de las protestas se expande por Europa. Con distintos niveles de violencia pero con un mismo denominador común, la oleada de movilizaciones es motorizada principalmente por adolescentes y jóvenes de la llamada Generación Z en Francia, Italia, Albania, Bélgica, Grecia, Portugal, España, Austria y Serbia.
La violencia tomó por sorpresa a las autoridades francesas e italianas, que se vieron desbordadas por saqueos y enfrentamientos callejeros. Las imágenes del caos en París, Marsella, Lyon, Niza y Milán dieron la vuelta al mundo.
Pero, ¿cuál es la causa de tanta violencia?
Los reclamos tuvieron distinto origen. En España y Portugal, los manifestantes salieron a las calles en forma pacífica por la crisis de vivienda. En Francia, los estudiantes fueron los primeros en reclamar mejoras educativas.
La mecha se encendió y ahora se expande en un reguero de pólvora bajo un enorme signo de interrogación sobre el futuro del viejo continente. Este sábado están previstas nuevas movilizaciones en Francia. Nadie sabe hoy cuándo va a terminar esta emergencia.
“La crisis fiscal y la insatisfacción social van a empeorar mientras las sociedades envejezcan y el petróleo aumente”, resumió a TN el analista Andrés Malamud.
No es la primera vez que la Generación Z sale a las calles en el mundo. A fines de 2025, hubo protestas masivas de jóvenes que abandonaron sus refugios digitales en Perú, Paraguay, Madagascar, Marruecos, Indonesia y Nepal, donde derrocaron al gobierno.
Ahora es el turno de Europa. Varios países están siendo hoy sacudidos por olas de protestas. El mapa es cada vez más grande y abarca ya a nueve países.
Francia: una protesta que empezaron los estudiantes se convirtió en una movilización nacional contra el alza del costo de vida
París y otras ciudades francesas se convirtieron en el principal foco del caos. Entre escenas de guerrilla urbana, hubo más de 3000 comercios afectados, unas 2500 personas arrestadas y 600 policías heridos. El 86% de los detenidos son menores de edad, según el Ministerio de Justicia. Solo los toques de queda nocturnos, extendidos hasta el lunes próximo, mantuvieron la calma.
La crisis comenzó cuando los estudiantes salieron a reclamar mejoras en la educación.
Pero lo que comenzó como una protesta de alumnos de escuelas secundarias se transformó en una movilización nacional contra el alza del costo de vida, en un país que afrontará unas cruciales elecciones presidenciales en seis meses bajo el avance irrefrenable de la ultraderecha.
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