STORY: Police deployed tear gas and lined up to block streets as clashes erupted with protesters in Paris on Tuesday (October 6) during nationwide demonstrations over France's education system.

Similar clashes were seen in other cities across France, such as Lyon and Strasbourg where police also used tear gas.

Students, trade unions and educators participated in the nationwide protests that are demanding President Emmanuel Macron's government tackle understaffed and dilapidated schools.

France's interior ministry said 6,100 people have been arrested since the protests began, the overwhelming majority of them minors. More than 1,800 people are being prosecuted, including 1,483 minors, the justice ministry said, without specifying the crimes.

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Police fire tear gas during Paris student protest

VIDEO SHOWS: POLICE SETTING OFF TEAR GAS DURING STUDENT PROTEST IN PARIS

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SHOWS: PARIS, FRANCE (OCTOBER 6, 2026) (REUTERS - Access all)

1. POLICE FORMING A BARRICADE WHILE TEAR GAS EXPLODES ON STREET

2. CONE FLYING AND LANDING IN FRONT OF POLICE

3. TEAR GAS CANISTER ON STREET

4. POLICE BACKING UP AWAY FROM PROTESTERS

5. POLICE RUNNING TOWARDS PROTESTERS, PROTESTERS YELLING AT POLICE

6. PROTESTORS THROWING ITEMS AT POLICE AS POLICE BACK AWAY

7. VARIOUS OF TEAR GAS ERUPTING IN THE STREET AND PROTESTERS THROWING IT TOWARDS POLICE

8. VARIOUS OF SMOKE ARISING FROM TEAR GAS, SHOUTS IN THE BACKGROUND

9. POLICE RUNNING TOWARDS PROTESTORS

10. VARIOUS OF SMOKE ARISING FROM TEAR GAS

11. VARIOUS OF POLICE BLOCKING STREET, WALKING BACKWARDS

12. POLICE CHARGING TOWARDS PROTESTERS

13. PROTESTERS PLAYING INSTRUMENTS AND MARCHING

14. PROTESTERS MARCHING AND CHANTING

15. FRENCH TRADE UNION ORGANISATION (FO) MEMBERS MARCHING WITH FLAGS IN THE DEMONSTRATION

16. PROTESTER HOLDING UP SIGN READING (French) “SCHOOL STAFF: A REAL PROFESSION. A REAL STATUS, A REAL SALARY, A REAL PENSION”

17. PROTESTERS HOLDING SIGNS, CHANTING AND CLAPPING