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2016: 2016 French taxi driver strike, a strike by taxi drivers in several major cities against Uber, included many road blockades, fires, overturned vehicles, and the blockade of roads leading to the two major airports in Paris. 2016: Nuit debout, protests that grew out of opposition to proposed labor reforms.
Oct 22, 2015 · It is 10 years since France’s urban riots of 2005 promised to be the wake-up call that would force an end to the inequalities of ghetto high-rises in the suburban banlieues. That year, the death ...
2009 French riots. A series of riots took place in July 2009 in France. On Bastille Day in the commune of Montreuil, an eastern suburb area of Paris, French youths set fire to 317 cars. [1] Thirteen police officers were injured. [2] On 9 July many youths started a protest in Firminy near Saint-Étienne, after the death of a young Algerian man ...
- 9–14 July 2009 (6 days) (UTC+2)
- youths demonstrators
- 13 police officers
French Student and Workers Strike against Austerity 2009. This action marked the first general strike in an industrialized nation since the global financial crisis of 2007 and 2008. [1] French students became frustrated by a lack of government support to workers, as well as high youth unemployment and low funding for education.
Dec 3, 2018 · The median earner in 2016 in France took home about 1,700 euros ($1,930) a month, but that means that half of the French took home less. The income has to cover rent, food, utilities and clothing ...
Jan 30, 2009 · Jan. 29, 2009. PARIS A nationwide protest against President Nicolas Sarkozy’s economic policies drew more than a million demonstrators into the streets of France on Thursday in the biggest ...
Jun 4, 2020 · In July 2016, Traoré, a French black man, died in police custody in a suburb outside Paris. Although there is no video, many in France believe that, like Floyd, Traoré was asphyxiated by police ...
