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🚨 REMINDER RIOTS WILL NOW BE INCLUDED IN THE BILL OF POLICYHOLDERS. Starting in 2027, a new contribution of 0.8% will apply to property insurance contracts to help finance compensation for communities in the event of a riot. Additionally, there will be: 💸 €200 million in surtax on auto insurance 💸 An increase in the "attack tax" from €6.50 to €8.50 per year 💸 Several additional levies aimed primarily at fires and compensation for victims of terrorism. According to the DG of Macif quoted by Le Monde, taxation already represents the equivalent of about two months of premium on health, auto, and home insurance contracts. Source: Le Monde With @pprcstr (translated)

The novelty is not that the left is using high school and university students for their own ends. It's that with the "new France," what would have been limited to a bit of damage and a few tags with the old one can now turn into a national riot of the 2023 type. At the same time, the government does not want to bear the political cost of a fierce crackdown on "high school students." (translated)

You break it, you fix it. You dirty it, you clean it. You vote for France Insoumise, you are guilty of the riots. (translated)

M. Lecornu: no surcharge to charge taxpayers will be tolerated during the examination of the 2027 budget. The bill for these riots will be sent to the headquarters of La France Insoumise. Mélenchon will be able to share the bill with his second round supporters Attal and Philippe. (translated)

The justifications for blocking the high schools seem doubtful to me. Looking a bit at the videos of the demands: ▫️"We are 25 or 30 per class" Well... that's not a lot, 25 or 30, in middle school and high school, we were between 35 and 40 every year... ▫️"The facilities are unsanitary" Well, that's often a reality, but a few minutes on TikTok are enough to understand that it's partly due to repeated damage by the students. ▫️"The class hours from 8 AM to 6 PM are too long" It's always been like that and we already have a lot of vacations; it's either one or the other. ▫️The cost and quality of the cafeteria: they are right about this, but with such a low cost relative to the real price and inflation, it's a logical consequence. ▫️Parcoursup and the future: this is the fault of the system that wants to give the Bac to everyone, even though there are no more job prospects. The problem is not Parcoursup but the too large number of high school students. ▫️"We are not replacing teachers" Given the working conditions, it’s not surprising. Overall, it only takes 5 minutes to watch the hundreds of videos to understand the issue. 80% of high school students don't care about the above demands; most are there for opportunism. The argument about disparities between suburbs and city centers is real, especially for Paris (the high schools in the center that pretend to support the movement are bold), but once again, the financial means allocated there are greater than for other territories, peri-urban or rural, and there are no riots there. And we can see clearly that this is just a pretext for the riot. We hear "the police are attacking the high school students." Really, I didn't think that by burning the high school entrance and throwing cobblestones at the riot police, they would charge back... All of this promises an explosive year in 2027… (translated)

What I saw this morning at Braque High School in Argenteuil: high school students peacefully expressing legitimate demands; teachers and parents present in support. The government that describes this movement as an "urban riot" wants to legitimize its violent repression to avoid having to answer for the consequences of its budget cuts on young people's lives. (translated)