French president Emmanuel Macron’s attempts to quell the outraged protest of the French people is failing. Hundreds of thousands have turned out in defiance of Macron’s protest ban , which he has combined with an effort to demonise the French left.

In Paris, particularly, the streets were filled with protesters:

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The protest was so vast that street-level views couldn’t possibly do it justice, astonishing even seasoned observers:

Je crois que personne ne se rend très bien compte du monde qu’il y avait à Paris pour manifester aujourd’hui.

Je crois n’avoir jamais vu ça. #17octobre #24octobre pic.twitter.com/vLjIBXzYcO

— Pierrick L (@PierrickLVN) October 24, 2026

“I don’t think anyone truly grasps the crowd that was in Paris to protest today. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like it.”

Vue aérienne IMPRESSIONNANTE de la foule de manifestants rassemblée à Paris. (témoins)

pic.twitter.com/YyALg6ohzC

— AlertesInfos (@AlertesInfos) October 24, 2026

“MPRESSIVE aerial view of the crowd of protesters gathered in Paris.”

And Macron’s politically-bankrupt regime has nothing to offer but more brutality:

French police just charged at protesters in Paris and started violently striking people entirely unprovoked according to an eyewitness on the ground:

“I’m here, the protesters didn't do anything. The police charged without any reason when we were just singing.”

The state is…

— Power to the People ☭ (@ProudSocialist) October 24, 2026

Les affrontements se poursuivent à Paris.

Très grosse charge de la police cours de Vincennes pour tenter de disperser les manifestants. #24octobre #Paris pic.twitter.com/ioerfOxC4f

— Luc Auffret (@LucAuffret) October 24, 2026

“Clashes continue in Paris. Very large police charge in the Vincennes woods to try to disperse the protesters.”

Police violently attacked even those not participating directly in the demo:

FLASH – Une INTERPELLATION VIOLENTE a eu lieu à PARIS, en marge de la mobilisation de ce samedi 24 octobre. ( @ATmediaa ) pic.twitter.com/jeF3eznZnH

— Focus (@FocusMedia_Fr) October 24, 2026

“FLASH – A VIOLENT ARREST has taken place in PARIS, on the sidelines of the mobilization this Saturday, October 24.”

French police gave no thought to the lives they endangered of people who were no threat to them:

Un policier assène un violent coup de matraque à l’arrière de la tête d’un manifestant.

Un geste extrêmement dangereux, pouvant provoquer une commotion cérébrale, une hémorragie intracrânienne, des séquelles irréversibles, voire la mort.

Ces coups sont même interdits à l’UFC. https://t.co/2peJIUkqT6 pic.twitter.com/mnnJXbLNGS

— Girish (@lilrishgi) October 24, 2026

“A police officer delivers a violent baton strike to the back of a protester’s head. An extremely dangerous act, capable of causing a concussion, an intracranial hemorrhage, irreversible aftereffects, or even death. Such blows are even banned in the UFC.”

And even as protesters tried to leave the city at the end of the protest, they were attacked:

URGENT : La police matraque sévèrement toutes les personnes qui attendent les bus ou les trams pour quitter la Porte de Vincennes ce soir à Paris

@AdrienAdcaZz pour @LibreQg #24oct #24octobre #Manifestationsdu24 pic.twitter.com/MEN9iY8hyS

— QG le média libre (@LibreQg) October 24, 2026

“URGENT: Police are brutally beating all the people waiting for buses or trams to leave Porte de Vincennes this evening in Paris”

The western ‘democracy’ lie has been well and truly laid bare: first by collaboration in needless foreign war, now by states’ contempt for their own people. And the UK is no better.