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French high schoolers started to protest because there was a lack of teachers and the hygiene was extremely bad in their schools. The school buildings were leaking, and full of rats, and the classrooms were overcrowded. About 740 out of 3700 local schools’ students started to protest by now.

Because of these reasons, the high schoolers started to use garbage bins to block the roads and schools’ entrance. Furthermore, they burned the bins to not let people to get across.

Protestors began to vandalize and burn buildings and loot shops. The government couldn’t do anything for this except deploying polices to prevent violent unrest. The police fired tear gas into the crowd, but it was not useful against people who wore masks. More than 1800 rioters have been arrested from this event.

Not only high schoolers protested. Now, staff from all kinds of companies joined the protest because of the high living cost. The price of vegetables increased by an average of 3.1 percent compared with the same month last year. As the winter is coming, the fuel prices are rising rapidly. Protestors believe that the European people are going to suffer a tough winter.

Not only has France had protests, more and more countries were having began protests because of high living costs and the bad education. Separate protests also took place in Belgium, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Albania on October 17 and 18. Students demonstrated against the state of their education system in Belgium. In Portugal, tens of thousands of people marched in Lisbon on Saturday to protest the country’s housing crisis. In Italy, Milan also saw two consecutive nights of unrest this weekend that led to about €1 million in damages.

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