{"id":25168,"date":"2026-11-01T10:45:18","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T10:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/11\/01\/french-police-tear-gas-320000-protesters-student-unions-closures\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T10:45:18","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T10:45:18","slug":"french-police-tear-gas-320000-protesters-student-unions-closures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/11\/01\/french-police-tear-gas-320000-protesters-student-unions-closures\/","title":{"rendered":"French Police Use Tear Gas to Disperse 320,000 Protesters Across the Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The French Ministry of the Interior announced that over 320,000 people participated in public protests across various parts of France on Saturday. This number is significantly higher than the ministry&#8217;s initial estimate of 15,000.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera reported clashes between police forces and protesters in Paris and the streets of Lyon. Security forces used tear gas to control and suppress the demonstrations.<\/p>\n<p>Simultaneously, French student unions have called for the closure of universities and high schools starting Tuesday to continue their protests. A spokesperson for the student union urged students to respond to the call to block educational institutions and to join the demonstrations organized by workers on November 5.<\/p>\n<p>These unions hope that a larger turnout this time will demonstrate the legitimacy of their demands. The actions of students are viewed as part of a broader wave of public discontent with the government&#8217;s policies in France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 320,000 protesters clashed with police in France as tear gas was used; student unions call for school closures to continue demonstrations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}