A court sentences Désarmons-les activist Ian to prison

After a month on the road, marchers from across France converged in Paris to demand regularization, an end to administrative detention and decent housing. The arrival gave national visibility to...

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...

Demonstrations continued after the 28 November mobilization, joining opposition to the security bill with anger over police violence and demands for accountability. Protesters argued that the right to...

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...