
Review of points of view on recent high school mobilizations and associated debates
Le Figaro offers a series of analyzes on high school blockages, addressing the risks of violence, the role of La France insoumise and the link between illiteracy and brutality in the school environment.
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High school mobilizations marked by blockages and episodes of violence have sparked reactions in the French public debate.
Thibault de Montbrial: “With these high school blockages, the risk is that there will be a death”
INTERVIEW - President of the Center for Reflection on Internal Security, the lawyer delivered his analysis on the outbreak of violence in recent days on the set of Points de Vue, the current affairs program of Figaro TV.
Pierre Valentin: “Insoumise France represents the party of “It”, that of release and impulses”
TRIBUNE - While the majority of elected officials have condemned the acts of brutality committed by young people in the context of high school blockades, LFI on the contrary continues to support them, notes the author of Malaise dans la generation Z. Also supported by left-wing intellectuals, the relationship of these individuals to violence has become more uninhibited over the years to unimaginable proportions, he worries.
Emmanuelle Hénin: “When illiterates attack school”
FIGAROVOX/TRIBUNE - The signs dotted with spelling mistakes held up by high school students serve as a reminder that violence is fueled by illiteracy, the inability to put suffering into words and the absence of meaning, analyzes the literature teacher.

The British Green Party has adopted a motion calling Zionism a form of racism, advocating a single Palestinian state across all of historic Palestine, including Jerusalem as its capital and the right of return.

The Prime Minister suggests a suspension of classes "for a time of internal democracy" in order to calm a degraded school situation marked by violence, Islamist and anti-Semitic provocations, and attacks against students and staff, making any debate on structural problems difficult.

Episodes of urban violence involving young people recall the destructive enjoyment of some of Generation Z, according to specialists.

Three intellectuals speak in columns: Baptiste Detombe analyzes the metamorphosis of friendly and romantic ties in the digital age, Omar Youssef Souleimane accuses La France insoumise of exploiting racism during high school blockades, and Pierre-Henri Tavoillot sees in these blockages an illegality that has become the norm and a dull anger of youth instrumentalized for the benefit of chaos.

Le Figaro publishes two columns: Bruno Alomar criticizes the excess of industrial standards in the EU, while Maxime Sbaihi denounces the generational inequity of the French retirement system, pleading for the removal of the tax relief for retirees.

Jean F., a former bachelor with a passion for auctions and flea markets, has changed his habits since his marriage and the upcoming arrival of a child. He now monitors his expenses via an Excel table for fear of not being able to pass on enough to his future children, illustrating a tendency among certain young French people to invest early to secure their financial future.