France’s education protests on 10 November involved 49 blocked secondary schools that morning, or 1.3% of the country’s 3,700 schools, according to the Education Ministry. In Paris, 6,000 people marched according to the police prefecture, while Interfac IDF put the attendance at 10,000.
The day also included an attack outside a blocked school in Chelles, Seine-et-Marne. Franceinfo reported that regional councillor and deputy mayor Angela Pascoa Dos Santos was hit in the chest by a closed, full bottle of petrol while she was trying to negotiate a return to classes. The Meaux prosecutor opened a flagrante delicto investigation for attempted intentional homicide against a person holding public authority.
President Emmanuel Macron condemned the attack, as did Education Minister Edouard Geffray. The Union syndicale lycéenne also condemned the violence, while saying the tensions reflected the government’s lack of response. That is a political argument about the education dispute; it does not lessen the gravity of the incident in Chelles.
The national figures describe disruption that was significant but far from a nationwide school shutdown. Nor should the Chelles case be used as a portrait of a wider mobilisation: the reported attack is being handled through a separate criminal investigation, and the supplied reporting does not identify its perpetrator or motive.
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- franceinfo Tous titres · Source date: 2026-11-10
- franceinfo Tous titres · Source date: 2026-11-10
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Chelles petrol-bottle attack: prosecutor opens attempted-homicide inquiry while thrower is sought