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Bally Bagayoko presented the launch of the Hip-Hop and Urban Cultures Festival of the New Town of Saint-Denis–Pierrefitte-sur-Seine as an evening focused on creation, commitment, and hope. He said that the city aimed to maintain a strong cultural ambition despite a difficult political and social context, which weakened local communities and tested cultural policies. He described culture as a right and a means of emancipation, and hip-hop and urban cultures as spaces for expression, encounter, and solidarity. According to him, the evening also allowed for affirming support for the mobilization of high school students on October 17. Bagayoko advocated for a convergence of struggles and generations around social justice, equality, dignity, and access to culture. #HipHop #CulturesUrbaines #SaintDenis #PierrefitteSurSeine #CulturePourToutesEtTous #Jeunesse #ConvergenceDesLuttes #FaireRenaîtreLEspoir #HipHop #CulturesUrbaines #Culture (translated)

Bernard Quintin, Minister of the Interior, stated during his visit to Liège, where urban riots have persisted for a week, that the situation is unacceptable and that the responsibility lies not only with parents and schools but also with the antifa movement, while announcing strict measures to restore order. #Liège #émeutes #éducation (translated)

Sophie Binet, general secretary of the CGT, stated that the recent high school mobilizations were calm and determined demonstrations, providing a biting rebuttal to the government's accusations that downplayed this movement by labeling it as urban violence. #MobilisationLycéenne #CGT #SophieBinet (translated)

High school students gathered en masse in front of the Sophie-Germain high school in Paris to protest during the third day of demonstrations, supported by unions, as the government fears urban violence in response to their demands. #MobilisationLycéenne #ColèreDesLycéens #ViolencesUrbaines (translated)

We were shocked by what we have seen for ten days and by this unprecedented repression organized by the government. While Matignon has deemed that the movement turned into "urban violence" during the previous week, the general secretary of the CGT, Sophie Binet, announced that the union would be present in the protests "to protect the high school girls and boys." #MobilisationLycéenne #GrèveÉducative #Parcoursup (translated)

The president of the PEEP mentioned a form of porosity between the anger of high school students and urban violence phenomena, while the Minister of National Education announced the suspension of classes in 400 to 500 high schools for security reasons. #Lycees #ViolenceUrbaines #EducationNational (translated)

French Carcan reported that Charles Consigny had estimated that the same people were behind the urban riots, and he had opposed them to the young people present at the Pope's mass. Consigny had also denounced a recurring problem with young people whom he had derogatorily referred to as hoodlums from the city. French Carcan had presented RMC Info and the show *Les Grandes Gueules*, hosted by Alain Marschall and Olivier Truchot, as "the target of the moment." #Émeutes #ProblèmesSociaux #Society (translated)

The author claimed that the extension of "urban terrors" was leading, in his view, to the collapse of the diverse society of which they would be a product. He accused the Socialist Party, particularly during an intervention on BFMTV the night before, of still defending mass immigration and thus fueling a backlash, without specifying its nature in the text. (translated)

Dominique de Villepin laments the unacceptable situations of the high school students' anger in France and calls for a more proportionate and targeted response from law enforcement, criticizing the government for labeling the protest movements as urban violence. #Lycéens #MaintienDeLOrdre #DominiqueDeVillepin (translated)