France in debt.

"Since the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) launched its second campaign, School Thik Karo (repair our schools), on Independence Day, it has encountered resistance of strikingly different kinds across Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled states. In West Bengal, a CJP volunteer's school inspection was followed by a violent attack on his family in which his father died;" in Rajasthan the CJP was confronted by a rowdy crowd to prevent them from entering schools and in Maharashtra CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke was booked. The Wire. The government has responded with savage violence to their peaceful protests, including permanently blinding some by indiscriminate firing of pellet guns (BBC) possibly because CJP volunteers are mostly adults who they think will not vote for them anyway. Gen Alpha are schoolchildren (The Print) and the BJP is chary of enraging their parents. Even as school protests have cooled somewhat in India, "Police fired teargas at protesters outside French high schools two days back, as teachers and students took to the streets on the biggest day of what Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu described as the most violent school protests in decades." Reuters. "France has suspended the use of stun grenades for policing student protests that have swept the country, after a 15-year-old's hand was blown off earlier this week." A 14-year-old boy lost some teeth and had his jaw broken when allegedly hit in the face with a tear gas grenade and "Prosecutors also said an investigation for attempted murder had been opened after a 17-year-old protester complained an officer 'held his head underwater' while trying to arrest him near a river." BBC. Stun grenades were invented to incapacitate terrorists without causing physical harm but can cause injuries or kill in close proximity and also cause fires. wikipedia. Treating schoolchildren as terrorists is a new low for President Emmanuel Macron. "More than 6,000 arrests and dozens of injuries have been reported in the clashes, as per Reuters." "French 15-year-olds scored 43 points lower in reading in 2025 than in 2015, according to the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment, the biggest drop among OECD countries. Their mathematics score also dropped the most." HT. In November 2020, "Against the backdrop of student's protest - even in the midst of a COVID lockdown - and increasing police violence and repression, France passed the draconian Global Security Law which would make it an offense punishable by a year in jail and a 45,000 euro fine to film, post, and identify police officers committing violent actions." People's World. In May 2021, "France's top constitutional authority said it had rejected a key article of a new security law that could see prosecutions of people who publish photos or film footage of police officer." The Local. Why are schools in such a poor state in France? Because of Macron. "France is on the edge of a dangerous financial spiral," as it "now pays more to borrow than former crisis hot spots like Greece and Italy." France's debt is now 120% of GDP and the cost of servicing the debt is expected to climb 59% by 2030. Macron released 10 billion euros to mollify the Yellow Vests protests (wikipedia) that began on 17 November 2018 and ended on 28 June 2020. During the Covid pandemic, "Macron responded with massive spending programs to shield companies and households from the fallout."  "Macron also poured tens of billions of euros into a program that capped energy prices after Russia invaded Ukraine." The fiscal deficit has been above 5% for the last three years. WSJ. "Public debt levels have climbed across the world over the past two decades, especially in developed countries." "In the April 2026 edition of its Fiscal Monitor, the International Monetary Fund said, "Policymakers should realize that markets are becoming less forgiving. Over the past few years, investors have increasingly questioned assumptions of unlimited sovereign borrowing capacity - even for large advanced economies," wrote Niranjan Rajadhyaksha. Will the French economy crash? Being part of the euro zone France will be rescued but all the countries will see their borrowing costs rise. Other countries may be blaming Macron in colorful language which may explain his savagery towards schoolchildren. Pellet guns and stun grenades on students. Crime? Asking for a good education. What can be more innocent?