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Cost-of-living protests spread from France to Germany on Halloween weekend

Germany's youth-led 'Gen Z regelt' movement joins France's Yellow Vests in a third weekend of nationwide demonstrations, with clashes in Cologne, Hamburg and Frankfurt.

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What to know

  • France's cost-of-living protests have run three consecutive weekends, with turnout declining from 550,000 (Oct 17) to 410,000 (Oct 24) to 320,000 (Oct 31).
  • A new German youth movement, 'Gen Z regelt,' brought the unrest into Germany on Halloween, drawing about 120,000 people to Berlin, Frankfurt, Cologne and Munich.
  • Violence flared in Cologne, Hamburg and Frankfurt — fireworks, arson of barriers, Molotov cocktails and smashed shop windows — prompting water cannons, riot police and arrests.
  • French authorities restricted marches to outside town centers and deployed 70,000 extra officers after warning of a 'very high risk of public disorder'; 296 people were detained nationwide.

“There has been an increase in incidents of emergency personnel being pelted with pyrotechnics and construction (materials) … our riot police are taking immediate action against this”

Hamburg police, German police statement · CNN ↗ · Oct 30

Laurent Nuñez French Interior MinisterGen Z regelt (Gen Z has got this!) German youth-led protest movementYellow Vests movement French protest movementCologne police German law enforcementHamburg police German law enforcement

Cost-of-living protests spread from France to Germany on Halloween weekend
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  1. 3

    Guardian reports protests ongoing, minister warns on masks

    Coverage confirms protests are under way in both Germany and France, noting a government minister's warning against the use of Halloween masks during the demonstrations.

    “We are young people who no longer want to watch decisions being made about our future without us…”
    — Gen Z regelt movement, German youth protest movement · source

    1. 1 outlet first by The Guardian, 6d ago · read ↗

  2. 1

    France holds third Yellow Vest protest day, 320,000 turn out

    French Yellow Vest-style demonstrations continue for a third weekend with 320,000 protesters nationwide, 70,000 of them in Paris, a smaller turnout than the previous two weekends; the Interior Ministry reports 296 people detained and 'radical elements at the tail end of the processions' in cities including Bordeaux, Toulouse, Rennes and Lille.

    1. 1 outlet Protests spread to Germany as hundreds of thousands march again in France

      first by CNN, 6d ago

    • CNN@c.im

      # CNN # News Cost-of-living protests set to spread to Germany on Halloween as France braces for fresh unrest

      CNN@c.imMastodon8d agoview on Mastodon ↗
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    Police clash with protesters in Cologne, Hamburg, Frankfurt — Water cannons and riot police are deployed in Cologne after fireworks were set off; in Hamburg barriers are set on fire and emergency workers attacked; in Frankfurt Molotov cocktails are thrown and shop windows smashed, prompting a street closure and an arrest.

  4. 2

    Germany's 'Gen Z regelt' movement stages nationwide protests

    A new German youth-led movement, 'Gen Z has got this!' (Gen Z regelt), holds Halloween-timed protests against the cost of living, underfunded schools, environmental concerns and possible mandatory military service, drawing about 120,000 people to Berlin, Frankfurt, Cologne and Munich.

    • europesays@pubeurope.com

      https://www. europesays.com/3343676/ France and Germany brace for mass Halloween demonstrations # BreakingNews # france # germany # protests # SocialGroups # unrest # YouthLedProtests

      europesays@pubeurope.comMastodon8d agoview on Mastodon ↗
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    Nuñez restricts marches, deploys 70,000 extra police — Warning of a 'very high risk of public disorder,' French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez announces protests will only be authorized outside town centers and deploys 70,000 additional law enforcement officers nationwide ahead of the weekend.

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    Second French protest day draws 410,000 — A follow-up round of protests across France attracts 410,000 participants, fewer than the first but still large-scale.

  7. background

    France sees first mass cost-of-living protest — An initial wave of nationwide demonstrations draws 550,000 people across France, the largest of the three protest days so far.

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