Demonstrators try to hang a banner on the fence of the Loire Atlantique prefecture’s building in Nantes. In France, as is well-known, everyone is on holiday in August: office employees, bakers, restaurant owners, and even protesters. The gilets jaunes still march every…

Topics Shocking footage has emerged from France of peaceful protesters being pepper-sprayed at close range by the police. Around 90 people joined the Extinction Rebellion protests in Paris last week, staging a sit-in on a bridge to protest against climate change. When…

Thousands gathered on the Champs-Elysees as tear gas and rubber bullets used to disperse demonstrators. Paris, December, 2018. Read more! Get our weekly email Over 2000 injuries caused by the police, over 100 of them serious. 15 demonstrators and journalists have lost…

Protesters calling themselves the gilets noirs gather outside in 2018. (Collectif La Chapelle Debout / Facebook) On July 12, a collective of undocumented migrants (known in French as sans-papiers ) occupied the Panthéon, a mausoleum and popular tourist site in Paris’s Latin…

Protesters calling themselves the gilets noirs gather outside in 2018. (Collectif La Chapelle Debout / Facebook) On July 12, a collective of undocumented migrants (known in French as sans-papiers ) occupied the Panthéon, a mausoleum and popular tourist site in Paris’s Latin…

A STONE’S THROW from the bustling arcade of Atocha railway station in central Madrid are the offices of Spotahome, a startup that matches tenants and long-term rentals. Set up five years ago, it lists 65,000 properties in 11 European cities and employs…

Luke Butterly explains why undocumented migrants in France are getting organized. The gilets noir occupied the Pantheon in Paris, calling for regularization of undocumented workers. Credit: La Chapelle Debout In the land of ‘liberty, equality, fraternity’, the gilets noirs have been calling…

Image: fair use 600 people occupied the Pantheon in Paris last Friday (12 July) in protest at the repression of undocumented migrants, who face racism, terrible living and working conditions; and the constant spectre of detention centres and deportation. These activists of…

French riot police fired teargas to disperse masked protesters from the Champs Élysées after the annual Bastille Day military parade ended in Paris on Sunday. A few dozen men — some masked and dressed in black — briefly tried to block roads…

The Tour de France peloton on the road from Troyes to Nuits-Saint-Georges in 2017. Photo: Getty Images Analysis: France’s focus will be on the maillot jaune rather than the gilets jaunes in July as the annual cycling fête tours the country The…