Unrest Mars Day of Protest in France, as Student Movement Turns…

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorRiots broke out in several French cities today alongside peaceful marches of tens of thousands of people, as a student movement over school conditions and living costs turns national, The New York Times reports.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe protests began roughly two weeks ago.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorStudents cite poor facilities, long days and teacher shortages, and more than four hundred schools were shut after earlier rallies, according to CNBC.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorFrance's Interior Ministry says around six thousand one hundred people have been arrested since the protests began.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorUnions estimated four hundred fifty thousand took part nationwide, while the government put the figure at two hundred fifty thousand.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe government is also split on what this is.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe education minister said the movement was legitimate at the outset, while the Interior Ministry says the unrest no longer has anything to do with high-school students' demands.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorIt matters because Paris is trying to make a major budget adjustment for twenty twenty-seven, months before a critical presidential election, as the Washington Post notes.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorA budget fight, an election, and a generation that has stopped doing homework. Lovely.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorTwo counts of the same crowd, four hundred fifty thousand and two hundred fifty thousand.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorIn my experience, the crowd is always exactly the size the person counting needs it to be.