La Gazette de la Paix • An independent bilingual student publication of the Geneva Graduate Institute
Kaila E. Doehler
La plupart d’entre nous avons appris à tolérer la répression (violente) de manifestations, dans la mesure où celle-ci touche souvent des groupes dont l’image sociale n’est pas particulièrement brillante. Mais ce cas soulève la question suivante: notre impassibilité habituelle se retrouve-t-elle perturbée par l’implication massive de mineurs ?
Throughout history, the French have shown that they know how to protest. Yet, this cultural tendency is insufficient to explain the combustible atmosphere in France. How did a spontaneous student protest snowball into nationwide riots? To understand what happened, it is essential to look behind the country’s political curtain.
Should we play in this World Cup? Should we watch this World Cup? And if we do watch the World Cup is it possible to do so in protest?
The outgoing French president Emmanuel Macron won the presidential elections on April 24, again against the far-right candidate Marine Le Pen.
The previous regional elections, in June 2021, were marked by a record of abstention of almost 65%, in a country marked by a loss of faith in political power.
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