France Reports Unprecedented Arrests as School Protests Spread

French authorities have detained around 2,000 people amid expanding school protests that turned violent in some areas, according to the Interior Ministry.

The ministry said most of those detained face accusations of assaulting police officers. The arrests mark an unprecedented wave of detentions linked to the protests.

The demonstrations have not been uniformly violent, with unrest reported in some areas as the protests widened. The summary provided no details on individual confrontations or where the arrests took place.

The scale of the detentions underscores the growing confrontation between protesters and authorities. While injuries were also flagged alongside the record arrests, no injury figures or further details were provided.