French authorities reported about 5,000 arrests amid riots over high-school conditions as of October 5, 2026, with four to five hundred Paris schools closing over security concerns. Arrests have since passed 6,000, most of them minors, and more than 700 officers were injured. The movement began at a run-down high school in a working-class Paris suburb and drew support from elite central Paris schools; a central Paris march drew 250,000 to 400,000, and later numbers fell to about 161,000. Authorities suspended stun grenades after several hundred teenagers were injured, and eleven inquiries into police action are underway. Blockades have dropped to five schools in Paris and about 200 nationwide.