Education, housing, social issues: everyday life in France.
Education minister Édouard Geffray on Monday ruled out any change to the 2027 baccalauréat and promised catch-up classes during the holidays. The same morning in Bègles, a head teacher was struck on the head by a projectile outside his school.
The Interior Ministry counts 146,000 demonstrators, including 46,000 in Paris, while the youth union alliance puts the figure at 250,000. Turnout is falling, ahead of Monday's social conference at Matignon.
The Interior Ministry counted 575,000 people in 193 marches, the CGT nearly 1.6 million. The ministry's provisional 6pm tally reports 448 arrests and 53 members of the security forces injured. Sébastien Lecornu is bringing unions and employers together on Monday at Matignon, the Prime Minister's office.
Racist audio recordings calling for delivery riders to be lured to isolated places and attacked are circulating on social media. The Paris prosecutor's office has opened an investigation for incitement to racial hatred, and a union is supporting five complaints.
The Paris police prefecture has banned the Bastille-Concorde route and imposed République-Nation instead, prompting the union alliance to go to court. Transilien expects between one train in three and one in two on several Île-de-France lines, while the metro should run normally.
Youth organisations called for fresh mass blockades of secondary schools and universities on Tuesday. The government counts 48 lycées blockaded and 51 higher-education institutions disrupted; school student unions claim ten times as many. The stated aim: to build up to Thursday's cross-sector mobilisation.
Ten days after the death of his son, killed in the racist attack in Trappes and La Verrière, Bolema Bossio Wangi asked in Paris on Monday that the national tribute announced by the government not be limited to a moment of remembrance.