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Impact shared an excerpt from France Info in which Mohamed, 18, explained that he obtained a general baccalaureate in mathematics and physics-chemistry and made 80 applications to IFSI, without receiving any admissions. He mentioned that he found himself without a school or job and had protested despite his peaceful temperament. Mohamed believed that the media primarily highlighted the damage and looting, to the detriment of the demands regarding purchasing power. He referenced the Yellow Vests, whose demonstrations had, in his opinion, achieved results, and expressed his desire to continue the mobilizations, without violence, until the demands were heard. He added that the rise in fuel prices now forced him to monitor every expense related to his travel and outings. #Manifestation #BAC #PouvoirDAchat (translated)

On October 17, 2026, protests against the high cost of living led to clashes and looting in several cities in France, resulting in approximately 1,800 arrests and major damage, despite the main marches taking place without major incident in Paris. #Manifestations #ViolencesUrbaines #Pillages (translated)

Emanuel Boeminghaus wrote that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang criticized Germany's lag in future technologies. While Huang pointed to German talent and technical know-how, he saw the problem in Europe's tendency to overthink projects. Boeminghaus reacted sarcastically to the notion that such concerns were a fairytale. At the same time, Boeminghaus referred to a planned collaboration between Nvidia and the German government, according to Handelsblatt. This involves investments of several hundred million euros in industrial AI, robotics, autonomous vehicles, and open AI models. The partnership is scheduled to be presented on October 19 in Berlin; the Nvidia developer conference GTC is set for October 20 to 22. https://t.co/pQ0vPFd1rX #Deutschland #Technologie #KünstlicheIntelligenz (translated)

Watt The Duck denounced what he presented as a new threshold crossed the day before, which he compared to the storming of the Capitol. He accused Jean-Luc Mélenchon and La France insoumise (LFI) of fostering a climate of confrontation and violence, believing that the call for calm made by Mélenchon was late and did not address his political responsibility. The author called for establishing a political cordon sanitaire around LFI and asked elected officials not to support Mélenchon's candidacy for the presidential election. He argued that elected officials were free to grant or refuse their signature, and invited citizens to contact their mayors and elected representatives to ask them not to endorse it. #StopLFI #LFICaSuffit #LFI #Démocratie #Politique (translated)

Jon De Lorraine stated that taxpayers were paying for a hospital that did not function, media subservient to power, and people who were destroying cities, town halls, and shops. He described this situation as a "rule of law" and said that the people involved should no longer be lecturing them. #Impôts #ÉtatDeDroit #Société (translated)

Marcel wrote that in Marseille, the police had attempted to suppress the revolt in the morning, unsuccessfully, and that they had not been visible in the afternoon. He added that the situation had been roughly similar across the rest of France. #Marseille #Révolte #France (translated)

Karen West wrote that she had lost respect for Copenhagen's mayor Sisse Marie We after a concern email, which she, according to West, had sent to TV 2 Kosmopol about today’s march for Denmark. West described the march as peaceful and claimed that the violence came from the far left, not from the participants in the march. She wrote that Danish Jews and their supporters had had to endure demonstrations with what she called more or less anti-Semitic slogans for three years. West called for an apology from the mayor and wrote that she had not participated herself but had followed the event through videos that she believed showed a peaceful march without ideologies. #København #antisemitisme #FredeligDemonstration (translated)

Bally Bagayoko recalled that, on October 17, 1961, nearly 30,000 Algerian men and women demonstrated unarmed in Paris against the curfew and for the equality and independence of Algeria. He mentioned more than 11,000 arrests, hundreds of deaths, and bodies thrown into the Seine, as well as decades of lies. He indicated that a march took place that very evening in Saint-Denis, for the first time, and presented the commemoration as a commitment to pass on this memory. He also paid tribute to Fatima Bedar, aged 15, who had come to support the demonstrators with her schoolbag and was found drowned in the canal. A city garden now bears her name, he wrote, adding that she should not remain an anonymous victim. Bagayoko believed that justice involved recognizing the crime of state. He stated that he had signed a petition from mayors demanding this recognition, the inclusion of October 17 on the calendar of national days, the complete opening of archives, support for transmission to young people, and assistance for survivors and their families. He called on every political force to take a clear stance, deeming 65 years of silence sufficient. According to him, acknowledging the facts was not about repentance, but about facing history and reminding children in working-class neighborhoods that their history mattered. He finally presented the memory of October 17 as a bulwark against the hatred used in electoral campaigns and the sorting of French people according to their origins. #Mémoire #Justice #Égalité (translated)