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Protests are sweeping France as anger over conditions in schools meets frustration with high living costs

France on Sunday is dealing with the aftermath of nationwide protests that damaged around 1,500 businesses and caused losses estimated at hundreds of millions of euros. Police arrested an estimated 1,800 people across the country during Saturday's demonstrations over the cost of living and school conditions. 

The demonstrations have united students and ‘yellow vest’ supporters, exposing deeper anger over living standards.

From student protests and heightened tensions across French demonstrations on October 17, to ongoing anti-government marches in Albania and the tragic sinking of a migrant boat off the coast of Djibouti, FRANCE 24 looks back at some of the most striking images from the past week.

Some 1,800 people arrested and hundreds injured during nationwide demonstrations attended by hundreds of thousands.

Following yesterday's demonstrations in Paris, where violent clashes erupted between police and protesters, our reporter Antonia Kerrigan returns to place de la République.

Clashes broke out near the Albanian prime minister’s office in the capital, Tirana, on Saturday as anti-government riots entered a fifth day.

Violence broke out across France on Saturday during the latest day of demonstrations against conditions in schools and the cost of living.

France woke up Sunday to devastated streets after clashes between police and protesters, mass looting and fires erupted nationwide as marches against rising costs of living degenerated into "extreme" violence.

Around 1,800 people were arrested after nationwide protests saw outbreaks of violence and vandalism.

This weekend, in cities across France, some 800,000 protesters, including students, railway workers and members of the Yellow Vest movement, took to the streets in largely peaceful nationwide demonstrations. Sparked by a month of high school student protests over educational inequality and crumbling school facilities, the movement has grown into a broader outcry over the cost of living, public spending and climate inaction, as people across France say they have reached their breaking point.

Weeks of student protests over poor conditions in schools and rising anger over the cost of living fuelled calls for a nationwide demonstration on October 17, bringing together youth activists and supporters of the Yellow Vest movement. The main grievance was the cost of living. The protesters demonstrating against it 'didn't get what they wanted', analyses France 24's Shirli Sitbon.

Violent clashes, fires, vandalism and looting marred demonstrations across France on Saturday as hundreds of thousands of people marched against the rising cost of living and poor conditions in schools. The French Interior Ministry said about 400 people were arrested nationwide. Our partner TV station France 2 examined who was involved in the violence during Saturday's protests.

Police in Paris said Sunday they had arrested a "record" 855 people over protest-related violence in the capital the day before, with the prosecutor's office saying more than 500 were being held in custody. France 24's Shirli Sitbon analyses.

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Authorities report 1,200 arrests and 150 injured police officers as unrest erupts in multiple French cities.

Smashing shop windows and snatching boxes of goods, looters in Paris poured into stores across the capital on Saturday, facing no resistance from authorities as nationwide protests degenerated into violence. Crowds of masked men wearing black hoodies yanked at metal store shutters until they gave way, clearing shelves of cigarettes, sunglasses, clothes, jewellery and food. The violence erupted as hundreds of thousands of demonstrators gathered across the country to denounce the cost of living,...

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The AISA student leader, now a prominent face of the youth protests, calls for Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar’s impeachment and a halt to the SIR

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Witnesses say masked protesters set fire to Limoges town hall, which officials say is now ‘largely lost’.

Demonstrations across the country turned violent, with cars and buildings set alight and shops ransacked.

Thousands gathered at events throughout the country on Saturday, building on two years of No Kings marches.

Hundreds of thousands took to the streets for separate demonstrations putting pressure on governments across the EU.

There were violent clashes between demonstrators and riot police throughout Saturday in the capital Tirana.

Disorder broke out in cities across the country on a day in which more than half a million joined cost of living protests.

Protesters in Albania accuse riot police of brutality as clashes turn violent outside the Education Ministry.

Al Jazeera’s Rosie Rosie Birchard was harassed by protesters looting shops in Rennes, France.

Five days of clashes rock Tirana as students join a wider movement demanding Prime Minister Edi Rama's resignation.