Further marches challenge police violence and security legislation

For the second anniversary of the movement’s first nationwide day, Mediapart’s documentary followed three Yellow Vest participants whose paths had diverged. One continued at a roundabout, another...

Journalists, press unions, civil-liberties organizations and other demonstrators gathered in Paris as opposition mounted to the proposed Global Security law. Critics focused on restrictions...

A national day of marches drew press unions, human-rights groups and residents opposing the bill’s restrictions on recording police and its expanded surveillance provisions. The Interior Ministry...

Assistant education staff and AESH workers mobilized in schools, seeking dignified pay, stable employment, more staffing and recognition of their work. FSU backed the locally organized action. The...

A Montpellier court sentenced Ian, a member of the collective Désarmons-les, to eight months in prison after his arrest during a September 2019 Yellow Vest demonstration. Basta! compared the...

Yellow Vest participant Moun was arrested during a demonstration against the proposed Global Security law. Basta! later reported that investigators pursued a case over a rainbow umbrella allegedly...

A gathering at Épannes in Deux-Sèvres opposed large irrigation reservoirs, known as bassines, that store water for agricultural use. Opponents argued that public support for the reservoirs...

A new national day of mobilization kept pressure on the proposed law after revisions failed to address demonstrators’ central concerns. Police and organizer estimates diverged sharply, reflecting...

The Paris Administrative Court found that the French state had failed to meet its greenhouse-gas reduction commitments, in the case brought by four organizations as L’Affaire du Siècle. The decision...

Tens of thousands demonstrated across France for International Women's Day, with associations calling for a strike for equality. The slogan 'premières de corvée' highlighted the women whose paid and...