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A video circulating on social media claims that French police officers, refusing to crack down on a high-school protest, resigned en masse and joined the demonstrators — the clip became a hot topic on 5ch’s “Nandemo Jikkyo G” (general live-commentary) board. It originated as a translation of a post from a Spanish-language account, and no follow-up reporting has confirmed the scale or circumstances of the alleged resignations, so how much of it is actually true remains unverified even as it spreads. In the thread, the main points of debate were whether protests involving arson and looting can still be called “demonstrations,” and how the memory of the French Revolution shapes today’s protest culture. The discussion also expanded to cover the French government’s budget woes — rooted in underfunded schools — and comparisons with Japan’s student movements.
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Translated from Spanish
🇫🇷🔥 Mass resignation of police officers in France, joining the protest
Source: video.twimg.com / original post here
What people said
Figures — a country that fought and won democracy for itself.
They really know how to run a protest.
By that logic every leader of every civil revolution in history becomes a terrorist, so that's an auto-fail.
They just went too hard on neoliberalism, brought in immigrants chasing cheaper labor, and in the meantime this kind of mindset spread.
Was that actually a success though?
Everyone's rocking homemade gear and there's some bare-knuckle gopnik-looking guy mixed in lol (gopnik: Russian slang for a thuggish, tracksuit-wearing lowlife)
Well the whole point is to inconvenience society until it caves — Japanese slaves could never pull that off.
I really think Japan is finished.
You're sneering right now lol
At the very least, decent people don't resort to arson or looting.
Do the far-left actually call this a legitimate protest?
In a country literally founded on the French Revolution, calling that "not legitimate" is a tough sell.
In France itself, the French Revolution is treated as a genocide though.
To modern French people, the French Revolution is seen as the country's greatest source of pride — it established the republic's core principles of "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity." The Revolution isn't just a historical event; it's regarded as the foundation of modern French identity itself (think the national anthem "La Marseillaise" or Bastille Day, the "Revolution Memorial Day" on July 14th).
That is such a Japanese thing to say.
French students: "Screw that! We're protesting."
Far-left: "Let's turn this into an anti-anti-immigration rally."
Right-wing: "Let's spin the riots into fuel for stoking Islamophobia."
How is this supposed to get solved?
They ran the country on African colonial exploitation for way too long.
It's over.
This is just decades of ignoring everything finally exploding.
Apparently there's only about one toilet per 100 students, and half of those are broken and out of use lol
Back in the day they just did their business all over town, so this is nothing (lit. "safe" — slang for "no foul").
Isn't the whole street basically a toilet in France anyway?
Then who's supposed to be leading NATO?
Germany maybe?
Germany's a mess too, which means NATO (pun: "納豆/nattō," fermented soybeans, sounds like "NATO") is in serious trouble.
They're drowning in debt about as bad as Italy, and on top of that the Ukraine war means military spending is the one thing they can't cut.
They're completely boxed in.
So what's France actually supposed to do about it?
Do whatever you want.
Honestly couldn't care less what happens to France.
117 Name: Anonymous (And Yet It Moves) [] Posted: 2026/10/06 (Tue) 12:24:56.12 ID:W4gNgJja0 [2/3]
Alright, fine, I'll grant you your point.
So what's France actually supposed to do about it?
127 Name: Anonymous (And Yet It Moves) [] Posted: 2026/10/06 (Tue) 12:27:30.40 ID:W4gNgJja0 [3/3]
Re: #117
Do whatever you want.
Honestly couldn't care less what happens to France.
smash up train stations and trains, rob the ticket machines, and drag station staff out to beat them up.
Why did we stop doing stuff like that?
Probably because the more you look into the old student movements, the more they just look like idiots.
Combined with how easy it is to dig up info online now, it ended up being a great cautionary tale.
Probably because back then people could still dream about socialism.
Background and Key Points of This Debate
The thread’s source material is a translation by the video’s poster, and no primary source has confirmed the scale or circumstances of the alleged mass police resignation and protest-joining — the facts remain unverified at this stage. France has seen repeated waves of protest in recent years over pension reform and the rising cost of living, and fiscal consolidation — including education budgets — has become a political flashpoint. Opinions in the thread split over whether to call protests involving arson and looting “terrorism” or to see them as an extension of a protest culture dating back to the French Revolution, with differing readings of history driving the differing judgments. Many commenters also compared this to the decline of Japan’s student movement, though the discussion never fully accounted for differences in historical context or social systems.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Nandemo Jikkyo G) thread “French Government: “Crack down on the high-school protests!” 😡 Police: “We’re resigning en masse to join the protest instead” 🫡.”
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