France: high school protests turn violent, nearly 2,000 arrests and more than 400 schools closed
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United KingdomLondon describes a France plagued by school riots: the British press highlights the fires, the injured and the arrests rather than the demands of the high school students.
What each one tells
opposition
GermanyBerlin sees the revolt of French high school students as a symptom of a worsening educational malaise exacerbated by the austerity budget cuts, rather than just a simple flare-up of violence.
- United Kingdom
of the riot
the Daily Mail puts the violence at the forefront, with a vocabulary of generalized confrontation.
Relying on an official source
the BBC bases its numerical assessment on the Home Office.
What the account puts first
GermanyBudget
the narrative links the high school students' anger to the government's austerity policy and market confidence.
- United Kingdom
this perspective does not carry this information
What it leans on
Germany onlyGermanyReliance on student testimony
DW bases the explanation for the blockages on the words of a high school student reported by an agency.
and the figures
1,949
Interpellations of Thursday, October 1st
people arrested
same figure1,949