The French police arrested hundreds of demonstrators on Wednesday while the demonstrations “Block Everything” broke out throughout the country, with crowds that closed roads, illuminates fires and bumps with authorities.
The Ministry of the Interior of the Government announced 295 arrests in the first hours of what was a planned day of national demonstrations against President Emmanuel Macron, cutbacks on the budget and other complaints. The French government suffered a major setback on Monday when Prime Minister François Bayrou lost a parliamentary vote of trust, forcing his resignation and replacement by Sébastien Lecornu.
“A prime minister has just been driven out and we immediately get another one from the right,” student Baptiste Sagot, 21, told The Associated Press Wednesday. “They try to make working people, young students, pensioners, all people in trouble, bear all the trouble instead of taxing wealth.”
Groups protesters who repeatedly tried to block the Paris ring road during the morning rush hour spread by the police with tear gas. Elsewhere in the capital, protesters accumulated waste bins and threw objects at police officers. Firefighters were called to the neighborhood in the center of Châtelet after a fire broke out in a restaurant and threatened to spread to an adjacent building.
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Police officers respond after a projectile had hit a cafe and set fire to Paris, France, on Wednesday 10 September 2025. (Tom Nicholson/Getty images)
The Paris police reported 183 arrests in the mid -afternoon, with more than 100 other people who sail in the police elsewhere in France, according to the number of interior ministry.
Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleeau said that protesters set fire to a bus in the city of Rennes, Reuters reported.
Road blockades, delays of traffic and other protests were widespread – from the southern port city of Marseille to Lille and Caen in the north, and from Nantes and Rennes in the west to Grenoble and Lyon in the southeast.
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A demonstrator is seen with a police officer in Paris, France, on Wednesday 10 September 2025. (Jerome Gilles/Nurphoto via Getty images)
The “Bloquons tout” or “Block everything”, the movement collected in the summer momentum on social media and in coded chats, according to the AP.
The call for a day of blockages, strikes, boycots, demonstrations and other protests when Bayrou prepared plans to defeat government spending massively with $ 51 billion to collapse the growing shortage and trillion in debt of France.
Protesters gather to block the Cadix viaduct during the “Block Everything” protests in Caen, France, on Wednesday 10 September 2025. (Lou Benoist/AFP via Getty images)
Macron had appointed Bayrou in December after a whole series of dismissal in the year when three other prime ministers left the top track.
Multiple reports on Monday noted that by the end of the first quarter of 2025 the government debt of France was equal to 114% of GDP.
Protesters of the “Block Everything” movement Take coverage of a waterganon behind an umbrella in Lille, in Noord -Frankrijk, Wednesday 10 September 2025. (AP/Jean-Francois Badias)
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About 80,000 police were deployed throughout France on Wednesday to handle the protests, the AP reported.
