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ARTICLE VIEW:
France hit by protests and disruption as new prime minister takes
office
By Saskya Vandoorne, Joseph Ataman, CNN
Updated:
12:49 PM EDT, Wed September 10, 2025
Source: CNN
Nationwide unrest broke out across France on Wednesday as protesters
blocked roads, set fires and clashed with police, who responded with
tear gas, as anger grows against the country’s political class.
The interior ministry said 473 people had been detained, with 80,000
police deployed nationwide, including 6,000 in Paris. The education
ministry said around 100 schools were disrupted and 27 fully blockaded.
It comes as , Sébastien Lecornu, enters office.
Appointed by President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday, former defense
minister Lecornu succeeds François Bayrou, in parliament over his
unpopular plan to tame the deficit.
Critics say appointing a Macron loyalist on such a day amounts to a
baptism of fire for Lecornu.
The protests – called months ago – are aimed at Macron and the
political class.
Early Wednesday, activists launched small but disruptive actions,
closing off key ring roads in Bordeaux, Rennes, Nantes and Caen.
‘No one listens to us’
In the capital, a CNN team saw protesters obstructing the road outside
Gare du Nord, one of Paris’s busiest train stations. Police quickly
contained the situation as around 150 mostly young demonstrators
chanted anti-police slogans in a largely calm atmosphere.
Elsewhere, groups briefly occupied public buildings.
Adèle Aubert, 27, joined a rally in Paris, telling CNN that she was
demonstrating to “denounce” the new government, which she doesn’t
think will change anything for the people.
“But we will continue to do it (protest) because it’s our only way
of denouncing it. We try petitions, no one listens to us,” she told
CNN.
Thousands also gathered in Châtelet in central Paris.
“We’re angry, we’re very angry,” Anna, a 29 year-old
researcher, told CNN.
“What’s the point in voting? We feel like the government isn’t
listening to us,” she said, adding that people were fed up with
successive governments under Macron that did not include representation
from the left.
Impressed with the number of young people at the protest events
Wednesday, she said that she thinks next week’s protest in
conjunction with French unions will be even bigger.
Much of the day resembled a game of cat-and-mouse between protesters
and police, with flareups like in Rennes, the capital city of Brittany,
northwest France, where a bus was ransacked and set on fire.
In Paris a restaurant in the affluent 1st arrondissement was also set
ablaze.
The “Block Everything” movement – a loose, leaderless coalition
born on social media – first surfaced online in May among right-wing
groups but has since been taken over by the left and far-left.
A larger nationwide strike and protest is already planned for September
18, when all trade unions are expected to join.
Elodie, a 34-year-old kindergarten teacher in Paris, downed tools to
join Wednesday’s protest.
She said she could no longer accept politicians “waving the flag of
debt to dismantle the public system, without asking the richest
companies and households to contribute.”
“I’m on strike for both social and economic reasons,” she told
CNN.
“The 2026 budget is unacceptable: it’s a budget of social
destruction and a blow to the French state. Even though Bayrou has been
forced out, once again it’s the poorest who are being targeted.
That’s why I’m on strike.”
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