By staff writer

Brutal Repression of Teenagers Exposes Deepening Crisis in France

Nearly 5,000 detained as French government threatens legal action against families, labels protests ‘urban violence’

TEHRAN — The French state has chosen its response to crumbling schools and missing teachers. It has deployed violent riot police. Over the past three weeks, a localized dispute in the working-class suburbs of Paris has escalated into a nationwide confrontation over austerity, structural inequality, and the heavy-handed tactics of the Emmanuel Macron government.