http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/9ea5ac85e280c6cc https://verfassungsblog.de/france-school-protests/ Too Young for Rights, Old Enough to Be Maimed - How France Polices Its Protesting Pupils Bury, Carina eng 2026-10-09 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 France Protest School Protests students Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 For weeks, French students taking to the streets for better schools have faced relentless police crackdowns near their classroom gates. Emergency bans and mass arrests have replaced open debate, exposing a glaring contradiction at the heart of French law: a system that uses youth as a pretext to curtail freedom, while offering zero protection from state force.