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🗞️ Story file #1215

Violent clashes between police AND protesters in France

Oct 31, 4 PM ET to Nov 1, 6 AM ET

📰 read it at: The Guardian CBS News BBC Reuters Scripps News The Sun Breitbart New York Post The Daily Wire

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

  1. Oct 31, 4 PM ETfirst on a front page: BBC
  2. Oct 31, 4 PM ETfirst on TV: Fox News
  3. Oct 31, 6 PM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
  4. Oct 31, 9 PM ETpeak: on 9 front pages

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Oct 31, 6 PM9 PMNov 12 AM5 AM49leftcenterright
Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 31, 4 PM to Nov 1, 6 AM ET (peak 9), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right
Oct 31, 3 PM6 PM9 PMNov 12 AM5 AMCBS NewsCBS NewsCBS News, Oct 31, 1:01 PM ET: French police clash with some protesters again as demonstrations continueNew York PostNew York PostNew York Post, Oct 31, 3:01 PM ET: Violent clashes erupted across France Saturday evening, with rioters throwing what appeared to be Molotov cocktails at Paris police which injured several officers.The GuardianThe GuardianThe Guardian, Oct 31, 3:01 PM ET: Police clash with masked rioters after largely peaceful protests across FranceBBCBBCBBC, Oct 31, 4:01 PM ET: Clashes erupt between police and protesters in ParisScripps NewsScripps NewsScripps News, Oct 31, 4:01 PM ET: French protesters defy heavy police presence in new demonstrationsReutersReutersReuters, Oct 31, 4:01 PM ET: Isolated clashes in France, as tensions erupt after peaceful marchesReuters, Oct 31, 6:01 PM ET: Isolated clashes in France after peaceful marches, as police brace for Halloween night violenceThe Daily WireThe Daily WireThe Daily Wire, Oct 31, 6:01 PM ET: Rioters Hit Police With Molotov Cocktails, Set France AblazeBreitbartBreitbartBreitbart, Oct 31, 6:01 PM ET: French-Style Riots Erupt in Germany as Far-Leftists Clash with Police in Frankfurt and HamburgBreitbart, Oct 31, 8:01 PM ET: French-Style Riots Erupt in Germany as Far-Leftists Clash with PoliceThe SunThe SunThe Sun, Oct 31, 9:01 PM ET: FIERY CLASHES Hundreds arrested after Molotov cocktail attacks leave French cops on fireThe Sun, Oct 31, 11:01 PM ET: FIRE AND FURY Hundreds arrested after French cops set on fire in petrol bomb attacksThe Sun, Nov 1, 5:01 AM ET: STREETS OF RAGE Protesters firebomb French cops and loot stores with riots spreading to Germany and Albania as unrest sweeps Europe📺 TVBBC News, 8:13 PM ET: Clashes between police and demonstrators in ParisBBC News, 8:14 PM ET: Clashes between police and demonstrators in ParisBBC News, 9:08 PM ET: Clashes between police and demonstrators in ParisBBC News, 9:09 PM ET: Clashes between police and demonstrators in ParisBBC News, 9:10 PM ET: Clashes between police and demonstrators in ParisBBC News, 10:09 PM ET: Protests taking place across EuropeBBC News, 10:11 PM ET: Protests taking place across EuropeBBC News, 10:12 PM ET: Protests taking place across EuropeBBC News, 11:08 PM ET: Clashes between police and demonstrators in ParisBBC News, 11:09 PM ET: Clashes between police and demonstrators in ParisBBC News, 11:10 PM ET: Clashes between police and demonstrators in ParisBBC News, 11:11 PM ET: Clashes between police and demonstrators in ParisBBC News, 12:08 AM ET: Clashes between police and demonstrators in ParisBBC News, 12:09 AM ET: Clashes between police and demonstrators in ParisBBC News, 12:10 AM ET: Clashes between police and demonstrators in ParisBBC News, 1:17 AM ET: Clashes between police and demonstrators in ParisBBC News, 1:19 AM ET: Clashes between police and demonstrators in ParisBBC News, 2:14 AM ET: Clashes between police and demonstrators in ParisBBC News, 2:15 AM ET: Clashes between police and demonstrators in ParisFox News, 4:55 PM ET: HUGE PARIS PROTESTS TURN VIOLENT ONCE AGAIN📻 radioNPR News Now, Oct 31, 6:10 PM ET: story 5 of 7
Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline, and a headline swapped for a new one between our hourly looks runs on to it. A gap means a look found the story gone from that front page. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.
✏️ 3 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
  • Breitbart (2 wordings): “French-Style Riots Erupt in Germany as Far-Leftists Clash with Police in Frankfurt and Hamburg” → “French-Style Riots Erupt in Germany as Far-Leftists Clash with Police”
  • Reuters (2 wordings): “Isolated clashes in France, as tensions erupt after peaceful marches” → “Isolated clashes in France after peaceful marches, as police brace for Halloween night violence”
  • The Sun (3 wordings): “FIERY CLASHES Hundreds arrested after Molotov cocktail attacks leave French cops on fire” → “STREETS OF RAGE Protesters firebomb French cops and loot stores with riots spreading to Germany and Albania as unrest sweeps Europe”
📰 Every outlet's headline 9left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

minutes its captions were on screen, by channel; the disc is the network's lean

  1. ⚖️ BBC News 12 min
  2. 🐘 Fox News 16 s

📻 On the radio

hourly newscasts that carried it, by show; beside the count, how often it was the lead story, or the highest it came in the running order

  1. 🫏 NPR News Now 1× · best #5

🎙️ On the shows

podcasts, newsletters and streams that talked about it, by show; the bar is episodes; the disc is the show's lean by reputation

  1. ⚖️ BBC Global News Podcast 1
  2. ⚖️ Reuters World News 1

🕵️ Investigated, joked about

🕵️ investigative reporting on it and 🃏 satire joking about it (jokes, never counted as coverage); the bar is pieces

🕵️🤷 No investigator or satirist matched to it yet.

🧶 Retelling

what people online made of it

🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.

🗣️ Names in it

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🔎 Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

🧵 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🧵 French protests and unrest

  1. France closes up to 500 schools amid student protests

    Oct 5, 7 AM ET

  2. Trump blames France protests on migration and Islam

    Oct 6, 2 PM ET

  3. French student protests continue amid escalating tensions and government response

    Oct 4, 1 PM ET

  4. Greta Thunberg joins French student protests

    Oct 13, 6 PM ET

  5. Protesters rally across France with clashes and looting

    Oct 17, 9 PM ET

  6. French president vows to hold accountable those involved in protests

    Oct 19, 7 AM ET

  7. Protesters block access to Louvre museum in Paris

    Oct 19, 3 PM ET

  8. Far-left activist arrested after historic town hall fire in limoges

    Oct 19, 10 AM ET

  9. Trump references French riots in midterm campaign

    Oct 18, 1 PM ET

  10. France experiences riots and unrest following fuel price protests

    Oct 17, 11 AM ET

  11. Macron criticizes foreign leaders for 'stupid' comments on French riots

    Oct 21, 10 AM ET

  12. Louvre and other museums close Saturday due to protest concerns

    Oct 23, 11 PM ET

  13. France bans non-union protests amid unrest

    Oct 22, 10 AM ET

  14. French protests see Hundreds arrested, some violence reported

    Oct 24, 10 PM ET

  15. French authorities report over 1,300 arrests during ongoing protests

    Oct 26, 11 AM ET

  16. Violence erupts in Paris as Protests continue across France

    Oct 26, 11 AM ET

  17. France and Europe see continued protests with arrests and clashes

    Oct 19, 9 AM ET

  18. NFL game played in Paris amid protests

    Oct 20, 10 AM ET

  19. France enters third weekend of youth-led protests as demonstrations spread across Europe

    Oct 31, 1 PM ET

  20. Violent clashes between police AND protesters in France (this story)

    Oct 31, 4 PM ET

  21. Protests spread across Europe as cost of living concerns grow

    Oct 31, 6 PM ET