On the barricades with wheelie bins and shopping trolleys: Paris students rage at politicians and police

October 6, 2026 · 11:28 am 1 sources

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• On the barricades with wheelie bins and shopping trolleys: Paris students rage at politicians and police
  The Guardian · October 6, 2026 11:28
  Unprecedented protests that began in low-income banlieue are turning ugly, with investigations under way into police brutality Before dawn on Tuesday outside the Lycée Sophie-Germain in central Paris, hundreds of teenagers dragged wheelie bins, metal barriers and shopping trolleys to build a…