{"id":182561,"date":"2025-09-10T11:58:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T07:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=182561"},"modified":"2025-09-10T13:47:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T09:47:03","slug":"large-scale-protests-in-france-with-dozens-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/182561\/","title":{"rendered":"Large-scale protests in France with dozens arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Protesters staged demonstrations across France on Wednesday, disrupting traffic, burning rubbish bins and at times clashing with police in a bid to “Block Everything” in anger at the political class and planned budget cuts, Reuters<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

The “Block Everything” movement reflects popular discontent with what protesters deem a dysfunctional ruling elite preaching a painful gospel of austerity.<\/p>\n

It is drawing comparisons to the 2018 “Yellow Vest” protests, which initially arose over fuel price hikes but morphed into a broader movement against Macron and his plans for economic reform.<\/p>\n

The “Block Everything” movement sprung up online in May among right-wing groups, researchers and officials said, but has since been taken over by the left and far-left. The participants in the protest declared that the political system no longer serves their goals.<\/p>\n

The demonstrations come amid political instability in France: two days ago, parliament voted no confidence in Prime Minister François Bayrou, and Macron appointed his fifth prime minister, Sébastien Lecornu. The left-wing France Unbowed party is planning to file a motion of no confidence, while the far-right National Rally has said it is ready to work with Lecornu for now.<\/p>\n

According to Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau, 75 people have been arrested in Paris.<\/p>\n

He said 80,000 security forces had been deployed throughout the country, including 6,000 in Paris. French media had reported that 100,000 people were expected to take part in the demonstrations.<\/p>\n

The minister warned that the protests could spread throughout the country.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Protesters staged demonstrations across France on Wednesday, disrupting traffic, burning rubbish bins and at times clashing with police in a bid to “Block Everything” in anger at the political class and planned budget cuts, Reuters writes. The “Block Everything” movement reflects popular discontent with what protesters deem a dysfunctional ruling elite preaching a painful gospel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":182487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182562,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182561\/revisions\/182562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}