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A firefighter engulfed in flames as a youthful mob watches and laughs.
A teacher doused in gasoline by guffawing thugs as his beloved school burns to the ground.
A woman’s face set alight by a masked goon with a makeshift flamethrower.
Two dozen schools burned and ransacked; cars flipped upside down; buses and fire engines savagely smashed.
It sounds like a montage from a dystopian horror movie — but it’s happening right now in France.
What started late last month as a protest about underfunded public schools has morphed into an orgy of Islamo-leftist violence.
Paris and other cities are now awash with foreign flags as throngs of unassimilated youths scream their hatred for France itself.
“In the name of Allah, we can kill them all,” barked one masked thug, to the mob’s demented glee.
We are witnessing something extraordinary: an intifada in the heart of Europe.
Surely no one can now deny the lethal error of throwing open a nation’s borders to the world, while sacrificing the ideals of integration at the altar of multiculturalism.
The speed with which scattered school protests turned into an Islamist-infused uprising was truly frightening.
It all kicked off less than two weeks ago, when thousands of students played hooky to shout at the government.
They called themselves the “disenchanted generation” and called for education improvements.
But within days it became something monstrous.
The crowds began burning schools down — more than 20 across France have been set alight.
At one of them, Nelson Mandela School in Nantes in western France, the torch-wielding mob caused $3.4 million worth of damage.
Teachers have been horribly assaulted, 78 injured so far. --->READ MORE HERE
Police fired tear gas at protesters blockading French high schools on Tuesday as students, teachers and parents took to the streets on the biggest day of action in a wave of demonstrations against understaffed and dilapidated classrooms.
In Marseille and Nantes, protesters held up signs marked with “The state has killed national education” and other messages, in largely peaceful rallies.
In Toulouse, parents linked arms at the front of a march through the city.
But in Strasbourg, Lyon and Rennes, the demonstrations at times turned violent, with police firing tear gas and protesters lighting fires in the streets and hurling projectiles.
“There is such a gap between the elites and us,” said Hugo Vetzel, a recent high-school graduate in Strasbourg.
The protests began in September in Paris’s deprived suburbs, then spread nationwide, posing a major challenge to President Emmanuel Macron’s cash-strapped government as it faces strong economic headwinds.
The High School Students Union said more than half of France’s high schools were blockaded or would close for the day.
Some local education authorities have tried to move classes online.
“We want more money for the national educational system so that high schools are renovated,” said Roberta, another recent high-school graduate at a protest outside Paris’ prestigious Henri IV school.
Schools were facing a list of problems from water leaks to rat infestations, she added.
The government has responded to the demonstrations with riot police.
Rights groups, students and parent groups have accused authorities of using disproportionate force against minors.
The government says outsiders have hijacked the protest movement and turned it into urban violence.
France’s interior ministry said 6,100 people have been arrested since the protests began, the overwhelming majority of them minors.
More than 1,800 people are being prosecuted, including 1,483 minors, the justice ministry said, without specifying the crimes. --->READ MORE HERE
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