White women and police officers have been attacked in the streets and schools torched across France as violence by youths, mainly from immigrant backgrounds, spirals out of control.
So-called student protests, which police say were orchestrated by the far-left, began two weeks ago in the crime-ravaged multicultural Paris suburb of Saint-Denis, and spread across the country before worsening on Thursday and Friday.
Horrific footage emerging from cities around the country shows marauding youths, almost entirely of North African or sub-Saharan African appearance, terrorising school staff and members of the public.
Young second and third -generation migrant students attacking their teacher in Annecy after she told them to stop rioting
🇫🇷 pic.twitter.com/pA4PTflkjq
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 2, 2026
Marseille: une femme brĂ»lĂ©e au visage par un Ă©meutier d’extrĂŞme-gauche cagoulĂ© qui s’est servi d’un spray comme d’un lance-flammeshttps://t.co/O3K9RNewWy pic.twitter.com/4TPK5Zmuws
— Fdesouche.com est une revue de presse (@F_Desouche) October 1, 2026
🇫🇷 In France, rioters attacked a man from behind as he tried to fight them off, knocked him onto his back, and started kicking him hard in the head. pic.twitter.com/zn6cQPF5RI
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 2, 2026
L’image de cette jeune policière, poursuivie par une meute qui hurle sa haine, projetée à terre et molestée, est insoutenable.
Ces faits méritent des peines exemplaires. Qu’elle sache que ce soir, des millions de Français lui apportent un soutien chaleureux. pic.twitter.com/3yt96dydeH
— Marine Le Pen (@MLP_officiel) October 1, 2026
One video from Baudelaire High School in Seynod in the country’s south-east, shows a White teacher being surrounded by a mob of immigrant-background youths and repeatedly punched in the face by a black male who appears to be wearing a school uniform.
Another, from the southern city of a Marseille, shows a black-clad thug burning a White woman with a homemade flamethrower after she tried to stop rioters from destroying a bus stop, and a third shows a principal being doused in gasoline.
Several other videos show rioters attacking police, including one from the city of Belfort in the north-east where an off-duty officer is knocked to the ground and savagely beaten, and another from Paris in which a policewoman is tripped over and kicked.
Marine Le Pen, former leader of right-wing populist party National Rally, responded to the violence by writing: “The image of this young policewoman, pursued by a howling mob screaming its hatred, thrown to the ground and assaulted, is unbearable.
“These acts deserve exemplary punishments. Let her know that tonight, millions of French people offer her their warm support.”
National Rally President Jordan Bardella wrote: “Footage of a policewoman being chased through the streets and mobbed on the ground in Paris illustrates what France has become after decades of laxity and mass immigration.
“How long will we tolerate this barbarism? How long will we let our country sink without reacting?”
Multicultural France is a hell on earth. pic.twitter.com/K8oD7O9wc9
— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) October 2, 2026
Young second and third-generation migrants film a French firefighter after setting him on fire during the school protests in Bordeaux
🇫🇷 pic.twitter.com/QbJmDzyxbn
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 2, 2026
The riots have disrupted more than 500 schools, left 65 school staff and 305 police officers injured, resulted in nearly 2,000 arrests, and have caused millions of euros in damage.
The unrest has sparked global condemnation from the right, along with warnings France is on the brink of civil war, and calls for mass deportations and an end to multiculturalism.
A police report which was leaked to the media found that the initial student protests where being encouraged by “far-left elements from students unions… and political groups such as… LFI”.
Far-left party LFI has claimed it is only lending natural support to the rioters as it agrees with their grievances about conditions in French schools, but its leaders, including African Saint-Denis Mayor Bally Bagayoko, have regularly appeared alongside the protesters.
Header image: Left, a teacher being attacked by rioters. Right, a teacher being attacked with a flamethrower (X).
