President Donald Trump is sounding the alarm over France’s spiraling street unrest, warning that the threat of Islam is taking over the country and fueling a crisis that has now engulfed the country’s schools, streets, and police.
“What’s happening in France is nothing less than out of control mass migration,” Trump said in a Truth Social post. “This isn’t about schools, this is about Islam wanting to take over a once great Country!”
French teenagers stormed back to the barricades Tuesday for a third round of their increasingly violent school revolt — and this time, the adults joined them. Scuffles broke out between protesters and police on the streets of Paris, while clashes flared in Lyon and Strasbourg as hundreds of thousands of high school students once again blockaded their schools.
French media reported that around 250,000 people took part in student protests across France, while organizers of the demonstrations estimated the turnout at roughly 450,000. Live video from Fox News showed police charging thousands of leftist protesters in a dramatic standoff, with one analyst noting an immigration connection.
🚨 JUST IN: Riot police are ACTIVELY CHARGING at leftist and Islamist rioters in Paris
GO HARD! They are weak when overwhelmed with law and order!
All that France must do is send in the troops and this ENDS IMMEDIATELY.
Trump nailed it: this is about Islam taking over France! 🇫🇷
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 6, 2026
“That’s a scary position for us to be in,” conservative commentator Lisa Boothe said. “And I think part of the challenge too with this is if you look back at the origins of this, a lot of where this started was in heavy immigrant areas, and the reason why that matters is, of course, if you’re allowing an influx of new people into your cities, into your country, that’s going to drain resources.”
“Of course, these budgets and these schools are being drained,” she added.
With an election coming up in France, the student agitators now have reinforcements. A coalition of teachers’ unions, the hard-Left Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT) labor federation, the Socialist Party, and French Left-wing politician Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s La France Insoumise joined the students. A radical farmers’ union even urged its members to roll up to the blockades on their tractors, The Daily Wire reported.
The movement, which started over complaints about crumbling classrooms, packed schedules, and a shortage of teachers, has spiraled into riots. Cops have made more than 6,000 arrests since September 28, and over 5,000 people, most of them minors, have been hauled into custody, according to France’s Interior Ministry. Hundreds have been injured.
In one video, however, one person is seen running through Paris streets waving the Palestinian flag as pro-Hamas and Islamist elements seize the protests to push their agenda.
“You’re seeing the heart of Europe descending into a state of anarchy, huge levels of violence and disorder; it’s an absolute disgrace,” Nile Gardiner, a former adviser to Margaret Thatcher, said on Fox News. “It’s a nightmare vision of Europe’s future as a whole, and potentially also for the United States as well; if the socialists, far-left Islamists gain power in America, this is exactly what will happen.”
French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu accused the hard-Left France Unbowed (LFI) party of having a “political agenda” to “throw the country into chaos” ahead of next year’s presidential election, according to France 24.
“The reality is that you take an ambiguous stance on violence because violence is part of your political agenda to throw the country into chaos between now and the presidential election,” Lecornu reportedly told the National Assembly.
The violent riots have cancelled classes in 891 of the country’s 3,700 high schools and left at least 190 students injured, according to French media. In the northern town of Lens, a 15-year-old lost his hand after picking up a police grenade. French President Emmanuel Macron is set to meet key ministers later today to discuss the unrest.
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