Hundreds Arrested in France as Price Protests Draw Students, Unions and Yellow Vests

Students, trade unionists and Yellow Vest activists took to the streets across France to protest high prices and inequality, and police arrested hundreds amid chaotic scenes in cities around the country, Deutsche Welle reports. The composition of the crowds is itself the signal: three constituencies with different grievances — tuition and jobs, contracts and wages, fuel and food — arriving at a shared complaint about the cost of living. Arrest counts measure the temperature of a day like this, not where it ends.