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Chemical irritants deployed as Paris protesters unleash huge fires (video)
NY Post ^ | 10/08/26

Posted on 10/08/2026 9:46:51 PM PDT by Libloather

Student-led protests over France’s struggling education system descended into chaos in Paris as fires broke out and chemical irritants were deployed. Student groups claimed 100,000 people protested in the capital, while the Interior Ministry put the nationwide turnout at around 266,000.

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TOPICS: Outdoors; Science; Society; Travel
KEYWORDS: chemicals; fires; paris; protest
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Water cannons can put out those fires. Just a suggestion.
1 posted on 10/08/2026 9:46:52 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather
Student-led protests...

[Expletive deleted] liars.

2 posted on 10/08/2026 9:52:16 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The right of the Democrats to embezzle elections shall not be infringed. )
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To: Libloather

Oh. Ya. A little tear gas will fix 30 years of Muslim invasion and judeochristian oppression


3 posted on 10/08/2026 10:15:25 PM PDT by stanne
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To: Libloather

The last time “student groups” were in control of parts of Europe, it was a few hundred years before the Crusades finally kicked them out. I believe the last group was booted from Spain just prior to Columbus leaving to discover America.


4 posted on 10/08/2026 10:29:58 PM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: Libloather

SKUNK SPRAY. The Israelis developed and used it.

Plus they ought to put some purple dye in it.

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/10/8/why-israel-loves-skunk-water


5 posted on 10/09/2026 12:51:28 AM PDT by Aria (Voted for Trump 2016, 2020 & 10/22/2024 )
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To: Libloather

SKUNK SPRAY. The Israelis developed and used it.

Plus they ought to put some purple dye in it.

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/10/8/why-israel-loves-skunk-water


6 posted on 10/09/2026 12:51:35 AM PDT by Aria (Voted for Trump 2016, 2020 & 10/22/2024 )
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To: Libloather
”Student-led protests over France’s struggling education system”

I am surprised NY Post is repeating that absurd propaganda.

7 posted on 10/09/2026 1:36:33 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism. A)
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To: Libloather
”Student-led protests over France’s struggling education system”

I am surprised NY Post is repeating that absurd propaganda.

8 posted on 10/09/2026 1:36:54 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism. A)
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To: UnwashedPeasant

“The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the Revolution.”

—Marx


9 posted on 10/09/2026 1:49:13 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn )
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To: Libloather
Student-led protests over France’s struggling education system

Is that what's going on? I can't believe that. What I'm seeing on the telly looks like Africans being Africans.
10 posted on 10/09/2026 2:24:26 AM PDT by ComputerGuy
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To: Libloather

I love how they keep saying students, when everyone knows it is the muslims


11 posted on 10/09/2026 3:16:13 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: mikey_hates_everything

Oh No.
You are looking at the Western Europe.
Look at South Eastern Europe.
Student groups ruled Balkans until the First Balkan war in 1912!
At their best, they tried to protest around Vienna, Austria, twice.


12 posted on 10/09/2026 3:29:54 AM PDT by AZJeep (sane )
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To: mikey_hates_everything

Oh No.
You are looking at the Western Europe.
Look at South Eastern Europe.
Student groups ruled Balkans until the First Balkan war in 1912!
At their best, they tried to protest around Vienna, Austria, twice.


13 posted on 10/09/2026 3:30:10 AM PDT by AZJeep (sane )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

No kidding! But that’s the commie-approved narrative. There is nothing related education at all, just muzzie / commie terrorism.


14 posted on 10/09/2026 3:58:34 AM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay Metal)
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To: Libloather

Tear gas?

Mace?

Big deal.


15 posted on 10/09/2026 5:11:57 AM PDT by Chickensoup
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

My son lives in Paris, he said students have nothing to do with this, they could care less about the education budget.


16 posted on 10/09/2026 5:16:36 AM PDT by Jolla
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To: Libloather

I saw a video depicting similar riots in 200+ cities all across France.

There is effectively a civil war in progress in France


17 posted on 10/09/2026 5:21:13 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Quid Quid Nominatur Fabricatur)
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To: Libloather

"The best medicine against the Grapes of Wrath is a Whiff of Grapeshot." -- Napoleon Bonaparte

18 posted on 10/09/2026 5:25:16 AM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: AZJeep

Yes, I said “parts” but should have said “Western Europe” to be clear. Technically, besides the Balkans, I guess part of Turkey is in Europe…


19 posted on 10/09/2026 5:30:13 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: mikey_hates_everything

I guess part of Turkey is in Europe

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Yes, but now only very small part.
But until 1912, Turks controlled huge part of Balkans.
Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia, Albania, Bosnia, Rumania, half of Ukraine.
They were beaten at Vienna around 1700. That got them out of Hungary. (Budapest was ruled by Turks for almost 200 years).

Series of mostly Russian-Turkish wars followed, but rudimentary Bulgaria and Serbia were established in 1878.
1912 got Turks out of Europe, but the second Balkan war in 1913 got them back where they are now.
Massive genocide of Christians in Today’s Turkey followed during WWI and afterwards, after Turks won the Greco-Turkish war.
Genetic studies showed, that Turks are genetically mostly Greek and Armenians, forced into Muslim faith.


20 posted on 10/09/2026 7:55:39 AM PDT by AZJeep (sane )
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