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Photograph: Thibault Camus/APKey events13m agoDemonstrations kick off across France's major cities amid heavy security36m agoParis protesters set off on march1h agoMarches over pensions in Madrid1h agoFrench police make 135 arrests, interior minister says1h agoFresh protests also under way in Albania2h agoFrench police fire teargas at protesters in Lyon2h agoProtest march under way in Orl\u00e9ans2h agoItaly bracing for several protests nationwide3h ago'Here to support the schoolchildren's demands'3h agoItaly police raid homes in Milan ahead of protests3h agoParis protest route moved away from Bastille and pushed back to afternoon4h agoSome protest bans overturned in last-minute court challenges4h agoDrive-by shooting outside of Paris targeted victims on skin colour5h agoCounter-demonstrators expected at Le Pen rally5h agoParis closes 24 metro stations5h agoOpening summaryDemonstrations kick off across France's major cities amid heavy securityPeople have also begun marching in the port city of Marseille, France\u2019s second-most populous city. Thousands had gathered for the procession down the Canabi\u00e8re main street.In Lyon, crowds have set off from Place Jean-Mac\u00e9, chanting slogans and singing, flanked by rows of police officers. Crowds are also marching in Toulouse and Lille.Protestors hold placards with messages about state purchasing power, the protection of public services, and fiscal and social justice, in Lille, northern France Photograph: Fran\u00e7ois Lo Presti/AFP/Getty ImagesMeanwhile protest restrictions remain in place in other cities, where last-minute legal appeals have failed.In Bordeaux, demonstrators have shown up at the Place de la Bourse despite a city-wide ban and tram cancellations.\u201cWhether the protest is banned or not, we will support the high school students\u2019 movement and we won\u2019t abandon them. We are parents, we were young once, and we are also workers,\u201d said Brigitte Couderc, general secretary of the CGT-Commerce and Services union in the Gironde region told Le Monde.The Bordeaux protest at the Place de la Bourse Photograph: Philippe Lopez/AFP/Getty ImagesIn Nice, police said they had ordered the dispersal of a crowd of several hundred people who had gathered at Place Mass\u00e9na despite all gatherings being banned.France\u2019s interior minister, Laurent Nu\u00f1ez, earlier said that there was a turnout of about 35,000 people in marches across the country, compared with 60,000 last Saturday. He said authorities had counted 136 public street actions, down from 264 the previous weekend.Angelique ChrisafisMy colleague Angelique Chrisafis has been at Place d\u2019Italie in the French capital.Many cardboard signs held by demonstrators in Paris referenced the dozens of ongoing inquiries into mutilations and injuries by police weapons in the four weeks since high school protests began.One 21-year-old student from a Paris science faculty that is currently blockaded by demonstrators, said: \u201cWe feel in France that we are increasingly living in an authoritarian regime that is trying to stop our democratic right to protest in the street.\u201dA protester in the Paris march on 24 October 2026 holding a protest sign featuring the cartoon character Daria with the message 'You're standing on my neck' Photograph: Angelique Chrisafis/The GuardianParis protesters set off on marchThe thousands gathered in the French capital have begun walking along the designated 1.5km route from Porte d\u2019Italie to Porte de Vincennes.The metro trains headed to the 13th arrondisement starting point were packed.The march has been organised by a coalition of unions, the CGT, CFDT, FSU, and Solidaires, supporting student federations, and there are the flags and banners of these various grooups.But there are also protesters of all stripes \u2013 many young people, but also families, office workers, retirees.Protesters holding signs and the tricolour march against rising living costs in Paris, Saturday, Oct. 24, 2026. Photograph: Thibault Camus/APMarches over pensions in MadridThousands of retired people and others also marched in the Spanish capital, Madrid, on Saturday, to demand that state pensions should be protected.Pensions have become a key battleground ahead of next month\u2019s snap election, with the Spanish prime minister, Pedro Sanchez, arguing that the conservative opposition Popular party wants to privatise pensions.Housing and rental costs have also sparked demonstrations in Spain in recent weeks. The September eviction of an 87-year-old woman from her rented apartment in Madrid triggered huge street protests in the capital and elsewhere.The movement is centered at a tent camp protest that has remained in the capital\u2019s Puerta del Sol square for almost a month.Demonstrators in Madrid on Saturday. Photograph: \u00d3scar del Pozo/AFP/Getty ImagesA man holds up a placard at the Madrid march. \u20187,291\u2019 refers to the number of elderly people who died in care homes in Madrid during the Covid pandemic. Photograph: \u00d3scar del Pozo/AFP/Getty ImagesFrench police make 135 arrests, interior minister saysFrance\u2019s interior minister, Laurent Nu\u00f1ez, has said that police have made 135 arrests in relation to the nationwide protests, and seized a variety of weapons.Weapons confiscated included metal balls, lead pellets, fireworks, slingshots, steel balls, improvised weapons, a katana and airsoft weapons, Nu\u00f1ez said. He added that, so far, \u201cthere has been no major incident\u201d.Police conducting security checks in the Place de la R\u00e9publique, Paris, on Saturday. Photograph: Mouneb Taim/Anadolu/Getty ImagesFresh protests also under way in AlbaniaAn anti-government rally is taking place in the Albanian capital, Tirana, after days of violent unrest in the city.Protesters have been calling for the prime minister, Edi Rama, to resign since last week, and demanding action against corruption and poor living standards. More than 300 people have been injured in the protests amid clashes with police, with dozens of demonstrators detained and damage to government buildings.Protesters outside the prime ministers\u2019s office in the Albanian capital, Tirana. Photograph: Hameraldi Agolli/AP\u201cThere is a lot of anger,\u201d activist Sidorela Vatnikaj told AFP, labelling the movement a \u201crevolution\u201d.\u201cIt\u2019s not a matter of only students, it\u2019s not a matter only of environmental struggles ... It\u2019s a matter of the state of rights and state of law.\u201dFrench police fire teargas at protesters in LyonAFP is reporting that police in Lyon, south-east France, fired teargas to disperse about 150 protesters near the city centre \u2013 where demonstrations had been banned \u2013 when they briefly tried to block a road.A 21-year-old student, speaking anonymously, told AFP: \u201cThe police are really mobile ... They come and disperse marches before they even form.\u201dProtest march under way in Orl\u00e9ansDemonstrators are on the move in Orl\u00e9ans, where Marine Le Pen\u2019s National Rally party is holding its congress.Thousands of people are marching, Agence France-Presse reports, shouting anti-fascist slogans and calling for Le Pen to be imprisoned, and for the French president, Emmanuel Macron, to resign. Police put the number of marchers at 11,000, while organisers said 26,000 took part.The protest march in Orl\u00e9ans. Photograph: St\u00e9phanie Lecocq/ReutersAngelique ChrisafisThe Guardian\u2019s Paris correspondent Angelique Chrisafis has been speaking with more demonstrators in the French capital.Pierre, 60, a retired banking consultant, said he was demonstrating to support young people\u2019s demands for improvements in education.\n double quotation markI think young people need to take part in building the future they will live in. I have an eight-year-old granddaughter, I want her to have a brighter future than the sombre times we are facing today. There is a complete refusal by the government to listen to people\u2019s demands and feelings.\nPierre, 60, with his messages: \u201cThe young people are waiting for responses to their demands\u201d and \u201cMr. President, France is speaking to you, listen to us\u201d Photograph: Angelique Chrisafis/The GuardianEmma, 35, a science podcaster, was protesting for the second Saturday.\n double quotation markI want to be part of a mass of people standing up for the schoolchildren protestors and saying the misery of the few is the concern of us all. I feel anger and despair at the rise of fascism and misery in the world and I want people to unite to campaign for something better.\nParis protester Emma holding a sign that reads: \u201cThe suffering of a few is the concern of all\u201d. Photograph: Angelique Chrisafis/The GuardianItaly bracing for several protests nationwideFurther student and youth demonstrations across the political spectrum are expected in Italian cities today after major anti-government protests kicked off last weekend.Like in France, several of those demonstrations at times spiralled into looting and clashes with police.Prime Minister Georgia Meloni \u2013 deeply unpopular with many young people \u2013 has deployed 500 extra soldiers to Milan and announced harsher penalties for minors, after major looting there last week.Police said the ransacking in Milan had involved about 2,000 youths. Police have stepped up ID checks at railway stations and deployed surveillance drones.500 soldiers from the \u2018Folgore\u2019 Parachute Brigade, one of the Italian Army\u2019s elite units, have been deployed to patrol Milan\u2019s central sites Photograph: Andrea Carrubba/Anadolu/Getty ImagesIn Rome, authorities have also stepped up patrols and shut down luxury shopping strips and are restricting access around the Circus Maximus and Piazza del Popolo.Right-wing students have been staging a demonstration this morning, in response to largely left-wing protests held last week which railed against Meloni\u2019s government and called for better schools, affordable housing and cost-of-living measures.An anti-war protest is also scheduled in a few hours time at Piazza della Repubblica.Members of right-wing student groups marched through the streets of Rome this morning in a rally organized in opposition to recent left-wing student protests Photograph: Gregorio Borgia/AP" ], "output": "readability", "pwd": "/data/archive/1792836323.235225", "schema": "ArchiveResult", "start_ts": "2026-10-24T13:27:01.609423+00:00", "status": "succeeded" } ], "screenshot": [], "singlefile": [], "title": [ { "cmd": [ "curl", "--silent", "--location", "--compressed", "--max-time", "120", "--user-agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 ArchiveBox/0.7.4 (+https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/) curl/curl 8.14.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)", "https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/oct/24/france-demonstrations-police-macron-italy-albania-belgium-spain-ukraine-russia-europe-latest-news" ], "cmd_version": "curl 8.14.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)", "end_ts": "2026-10-24T13:27:01.601225+00:00", "index_texts": null, "output": "Thousands march in Paris as protests take place across Europe \u2013 Europe live | Europe | The Guardian", "pwd": "/data/archive/1792836323.235225", "schema": "ArchiveResult", "start_ts": "2026-10-24T13:27:01.444747+00:00", "status": "succeeded" } ], "wget": [ { "cmd": [ "wget", "--no-verbose", "--adjust-extension", "--convert-links", "--force-directories", "--span-hosts", "--no-parent", "-e", "robots=off", "--reject=js,mjs,woff,woff2,ttf,otf,eot,mp4,m4v,mov,webm,ogv,mkv,avi,flv", "--timeout=120", "--restrict-file-names=windows", "--page-requisites", "--user-agent=Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 ArchiveBox/0.7.4 (+https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/) wget/GNU Wget 1.21.3", "--compression=auto", "--timestamping", "https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/oct/24/france-demonstrations-police-macron-italy-albania-belgium-spain-ukraine-russia-europe-latest-news" ], "cmd_version": "GNU Wget 1.21.3", "end_ts": "2026-10-24T13:27:01.433101+00:00", "index_texts": null, "output": "www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/oct/24/france-demonstrations-police-macron-italy-albania-belgium-spain-ukraine-russia-europe-latest-news.html", "pwd": "/data/archive/1792836323.235225", "schema": "ArchiveResult", "start_ts": "2026-10-24T13:26:57.176600+00:00", "status": "succeeded" } ] }, "icons": null, "is_archived": true, "is_static": false, "latest": { "archive_org": null, "dom": null, "favicon": "favicon.ico", "git": null, "media": null, "pdf": null, "screenshot": null, "singlefile": null, "title": "Thousands march in Paris as protests take place across Europe \u2013 Europe live | Europe | The Guardian", "warc": null, "wget": "www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/oct/24/france-demonstrations-police-macron-italy-albania-belgium-spain-ukraine-russia-europe-latest-news.html" }, "link_dir": "/data/archive/1792836323.235225", "newest_archive_date": "2026-10-24T13:27:04.906065+00:00", "num_failures": 1, "num_outputs": 5, "oldest_archive_date": "2026-10-24T13:26:56.311988+00:00", "path": "/world/live/2026/oct/24/france-demonstrations-police-macron-italy-albania-belgium-spain-ukraine-russia-europe-latest-news", "schema": "Link", "scheme": "https", "snapshot_id": "92d950e4-b675-47dd-b623-fb5aee73dc2d", "sources": [ "/data/sources/1792836323-import.txt" ], "tags": ",war-wiki,world_news,pool", "tags_str": "war-wiki,world_news,pool", "timestamp": "1792836323.235225", "title": "Thousands march in Paris as protests take place across Europe \u2013 Europe live | Europe | The Guardian", "updated": "2026-10-24T13:26:56.311788+00:00", "updated_date": "2026-10-24 13:26", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/oct/24/france-demonstrations-police-macron-italy-albania-belgium-spain-ukraine-russia-europe-latest-news" }