Demonstrations swept across France and drew students, teachers and parents into the streets, with over 250,000 people marching and hundreds injured since unrest began last month ▻ ↧ School protests sweeping France cause 'heaviest toll in decades' Demonstrations swept across France on Tuesday as teachers and parents took to the streets with high school pupils on the biggest day of what Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu described as the most ​violent student demonstrations in decades.