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Bally Bagayoko believed that Jean-Luc Mélenchon was right and that the way out of the crisis required responses to demands regarding the cost of living, student precarity, and study conditions. He called on the government to make concrete commitments and wrote that calming tensions must go through dialogue and social justice. #JusticeSociale #Dialogue #Précarité (translated)

Ilan Gabet had called for a protest on October 17 against capitalism, the high cost of living, precariousness, inequalities, austerity, fascism, racism, police violence, and the degradation of public services. He had also advocated for demands regarding wages, pensions, education, hospitals, the future, and dignity, in favor of a more just, equal, and solidarity-based society. #ColèrePopulaire #JusticeSociale #Manifestation (translated)

On the eve of October 17, Akim Omiri wrote that many people were struggling to feed themselves, to find housing, and to get around. He stated that the RN was focusing on only one topic and had, in his view, no proposals to improve their daily lives. #17Octobre #Précarité #Politique (translated)

The author indicated that contract workers and precarious employees of the National Assembly were requesting housing support. He added that housing-related difficulties affected many French people and also concerned the heart of Republican institutions. https://t.co/WxvjpNMLq6 #Logement #Précarité #AssembléeNationale #FR (translated)

The Belgian Restos du Cœur are sounding the alarm due to a sharp increase in the demand for food aid and the decrease in the federal budget for food support, as they wonder who will still provide assistance if they can no longer operate. #RestosDuCœur #AideAlimentaire #Précarité (translated)

Press summaries have linked Dominique Rizet's desire to demonstrate on October 17 against the high cost of living to his comments on BFMTV during the Yellow Vests mobilization in December 2018. The account recalled that he had then expressed satisfaction with the number of arrests and had described as "unacceptable" the speech of a lawyer denouncing preventive arrests, according to sequences documented by Acrimed. Press summaries also cited alerts from the Defender of Rights regarding violations of the freedom to protest and criticisms from Amnesty concerning preemptive police custody ahead of demonstrations. The account mentioned the 7,000 arrests related to the student movement and reported that a commissioner explained this week in Le Canard enchaîné that the goal was to intimidate students and parents. Finally, he compared diesel, which he claimed had risen from about €1.53/L in 2018 to an average national price of €2.348/L on October 14, 2026. A full tank of 60 liters would thus have increased from about 92 to 141 euros, while food prices would have risen by approximately 31% since 2018. Press summaries presented this situation as ironic, considering that the high cost of living now affects commentators who had previously observed social anger from a distance. https://t.co/wL4ynpwH8T #Giletsjaunes #manifestation #précarité (translated)

The Secours populaire de Paris organized a solidarity cooking workshop to raise awareness of the growing insecurity among students, who are increasing their requests for food assistance in the face of rising prices. #PrécaritéÉtudiante #SecoursPopulaire #CuisineSolidaire (translated)

The author indicated that the life expectancy of children in care was twenty years lower than that of the general population and that a quarter of people in extreme poverty had gone through child protective services. He described these situations as humanly intolerable and wrote that he no longer wanted them to be accepted. (translated)

According to a report by Action Against Hunger, 13% of French people, or about 7 million adults, report lacking food, with an alarming proportion of 25% among 18-24 year-olds, prompting the NGO to call for the legal recognition of the right to food. #DroitÀLAlimentation #PrécaritéAlimentaire #ActionContreLaFaim (translated)

Didier Maïsto accused Emmanuel Macron of having confined a generation for months, closed high schools, and isolated teenagers, while he was going to the theater with his wife. He believed that these measures had contributed to the distress of young people and criticized the fact that their anger was treated as a public order issue. To support his statements, Maïsto cited figures he attributed to Public Health France and the National Suicide Observatory: nearly one in five high school students would have shown a significant risk of depression and suicidal thoughts in the past year, and 15% would have already attempted suicide. He also indicated that hospitalizations for self-inflicted injuries among young women aged 15 to 19 had reached 516 per 100,000 in 2023, an increase of nearly 50% since 2017, while the youth suicide rate is said to have increased by 40% between 2020 and 2022. According to him, more than half of students reported depressive symptoms during the second lockdown. Maïsto added that the deterioration of young people's mental health had started in the mid-2010s and that the lockdowns had accelerated it. He also mentioned isolation, academic pressure, Parcoursup, social media, and precarity, estimating that girls were particularly affected. He concluded that young people did not need to be targeted by defense ball launchers. #SantéMentaleJeunes #SantéMentale #Jeunesse #Dépression (translated)