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    "parsed_content": "It all began, it should be remembered, with the spontaneous blockade of a high school in the Paris suburb of Cr\u00e9teil by students exasperated by their daily lives: overloaded schedules, a persistent lack of teachers, inadequate facilities, all overshadowed by deep anxiety about the future, embodied by the automated university admissions platform. Unions and parties were nowhere to be seen. There was no new reform to denounce. But these high school students, many of them living in working-class suburbs of Paris, had things to say, even if it came out awkwardly or unclearly. But few were willing to listen. Fueled by social media and immediately seized on by the radical left, the protest spread rapidly after September 21. High school students began mobilizing in every region of France (1,000 schools, or one in four, were affected as of Thursday, October 1), joined by university students, in what has become the largest youth movement since 2018, the year of major high school reforms, as well as the Yellow Vest protests. But unacceptable violence has marked these actions, carried out by both inflamed youths and autonomous groups. The statistics are both unprecedented and alarming, with 235 students and teachers injured since the start of the movement, and 305 law enforcement officers injured on Thursday alone. Among the former are reckless users of fireworks. There have also been teenagers wounded by police. Teachers have put themselves at risk by stepping in between students and law enforcement in an attempt to limit the damage. When confronted with teenagers, police forces intervened without sufficient proportionality or discernment, contrary to the claims of the interior minister. Protest in front of Bartholdi high school, in Saint-Denis, on October 1, 2026. CAMILLE MILLERAND\/DIVERGENCE FOR LE MONDE Supporting young people's demands requires condemning this violence. Radical left-wing La France Insoumise (LFI), quick to move into its preferred territory \u2013 the young electorate of the suburbs \u2013 has nevertheless chosen ambiguity. \"Violence can become legitimate at a certain point,\" said Bally Bagayoko, the mayor of Saint-Denis. In doing so, LFI handed ammunition to its opponents. Read more Subscribers only With high school protests, M\u00e9lenchon is trying to both appeal to his base and attract new voters Meanwhile, the government denied the very legitimacy of the students' actions, immediately reducing the protests to a matter of public order, \"urban violence,\" and political maneuvering \u2013 suggesting that LFI relied on \"proxies,\" a term normally reserved for warfare to refer to a belligerent's local forces. Against the backdrop of an increasingly polarized presidential campaign, Prime Minister S\u00e9bastien Lecornu has therefore chosen to focus on portraying LFI as extremist and revolutionary. In the process, he has sidelined his education minister, Edouard Geffray, a competent technocrat whose \"high school student consultation platform\" lost credibility the moment it was announced. A dangerous and irresponsible standoff has now taken hold. The movement risks turning into riots, as frustrations and anger accumulate once again against the institutions. Authorities should have started by listening to high school students and treating their protest as a social movement. Le Monde Translation of an original article published in French on lemonde.fr; the publisher may only be liable for the French version.",
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