This is the moment three French school protesters were dragged away by their parents during riots that have sent shockwaves through the country.
France has suffered days of disorder and violence sparked by failing school conditions, with riot police clashing with hundreds of thousands of rioters in towns and cities across the country.
Riot cops have bene involved in on-running battles with balaclava-clad demonstrators who have set fire to schools and attacked teachers.
But while young protesters may have grown increasingly assertive against the State, fear of their parents clearly remains.
Humiliating videos have emerged showing furious mothers and fathers reprimanding their rioting children and hauling them away from the unrest.
In one clip, a seething mother can be seen getting out of her car and sprinting towards her son as smoke billows in the background.
The mother grabs her child with her left hand, leaving her right hand free to whack him on the back while forcing him towards the vehicle. The parent then bundles her son, who towers over her, into it.
In another video, a mother clutches her disgruntled daughter’s clothes and pulls her through the crowds of pupils at a school blockade.
The fuming daughter resists and stands still but eventually gives in after making eye contact with her enraged parent.
A seething mother grabs her rioting son after sprinting out of her car
A father was captured calmly ushering his son away from the protesting students, steering him by the back of the neck. It is captioned: ‘A fair-haired, white father is coming to pick up his son’
A mother clutches her disgruntled daughter’s clothes and pulls her through the crowds of pupils at a school blockade
Elsewhere, a father was captured calmly leading his son away from the protesting students, steering him by the back of the neck.
Screams can be heard in the background of the video, captioned ‘a fair-haired, white father is coming to pick up his son’, while officers blockade the street ahead.
Some 256,000 people are predicted to have taken to the country’s streets yesterday, France’s interior ministry said, as students joined arms with demonstrators from the country’s powerful trade unions.
The mayor, who belongs to the La France Insoumise (LFI) party, drew criticism last week for claiming: ‘Violence can become legitimate at a certain point.’
He was seen on Tuesday confronting riot police in a suit and tie, standing side-by-side with balaclava-wearing thugs.
Parisian police said at least 300 rioters were trying to attack law enforcement, throwing rocks and fragments of pavement at them.
In Rennes, north-west France, police used water cannons against protesters.
Police spray CS gas as they clash with students on Boulevard Saint-Germain during a protest outside Sciences Po today
Saint-Denis mayor Bally Bagayoko stood between protesters and police officers during a demonstration of high-school students in Paris on Tuesday
Students block the road outside Sciences Po university during nationwide violent protests today
French newspaper Le Parisien reported that some inciters were telling their Snapchat followers to ‘bring knives’ and ‘stab civilians in the crowd’ outside the Couffignal high school in Strasbourg.
Police sources told the newspaper that they had received reports concerning potential violence during blockades outside schools in the French city.
Officials reported 488 arrests on Tuesday, while lessons in 891 of France’s 3,700 lycées were completely or partly suspended.
The violent clashes have sparked a string of harrowing incidents, including one in which a 15-year-old protester had their hand blown off by a stun grenade.
Amid mounting allegations of police brutality, officials today announced they would stop firing stun grenades at protesting students.
But Sebastien Lecornu, France’s prime minister, rejected accusations of ‘police repression’ during a tense parliamentary session on Tuesday, where he accused the leader of LFI, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, of intentionally fuelling unrest.
This comes as officials announced one police officer has been charged over a separate incident where a 14-year-old student was struck in the face by a tear-gas grenade launched at close range. He lost several teeth.
Meanwhile, a 15-year-old boy had been arrested on Monday for allegedly taking part in a gang attack on a policewoman in Paris.
Protesters form a human chain as they face off with French riot police amid clashes on the Boulevard Saint-Germain during a protest outside Sciences Po university in Paris today
Students have been protesting failing school conditions for weeks. But discontent boiled over last week into violent clashes with police across hundreds of campuses.
Protesters walked out complaining of missing teachers, overloaded timetables, dilapidated classrooms and buildings that cannot cope with rising temperatures.
The demonstrations quickly turned into pupils lighting dustbin fires, torching bus shelters and clashing with riot police, who have in turn responded with batons, tear gas and riot-control rounds.
The government ordered schools to halt lesson time until Friday for ‘internal democracy’.
But student unions remain doubtful and have called for blockades to continue until Wednesday. An ‘Act IV’ of nationwide protests has also been ordered on Thursday.
It comes as Donald Trump blamed French student riots on ‘mass migration’ and ‘Islam wanting to take over’.
The US President waded into the debate on his Truth Social account on Tuesday evening, claiming the situation in France has become ‘out of control’.
Posting to social media, Trump said: ‘What’s happening in France is nothing less than out of control mass migration.
‘This isn’t about schools, this is about Islam wanting to take over a once great Country! President DJT.’
